The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-09-06

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hopfy that hay fever u due IA tho
r0llo1 N NrafafH i 10 nHH one. On
he contrary. II hu Tor some time boon
gfoWiGR 10 favor with pathOlOdstH. And
Uf Maokrniio's abba exposition may
M l0oke1 upon rather ~ tho ooncia
i've ylndlcaiign N tho pollen hypOihe
,s than Ne the first statement N a nov
truth Indeed, ~ long M hay fever
has boon known ~ nil, The popular
name by which Il Il famlilarly called
has associated II with the towering
lime NJ tho ordinary meadow grasses
though the irritation has generally
been mcribod rather Ia the odor "
sweet yernal grass aud scented holcns
than 10 the Il stinGiife action " the pol
len itself The lattor species IL IN.
known In English meadows, but sweet
yernal Rras. Il familiar to most ~ az rs
the peculiar spiky plant 10 which new
mOwn hay owes with "a the whole VI
its delicious fragrance. sui hay fever,
Ike influenza or cholera, did not occur
in Europe, according TO DR. Mackenzie,
n "the good old times %(wheDeyer that
may bel or II ii did occur II was over
looked IN the multiplicity Of medieval
diseases. A. tho complaint does not
actually kill, II may have been consid.
cred unworthy serious attention In the
days Of tho Black Death and the Great
Plague; but II Is singular thN the first
detailed account WAS given by Bostock
nj NJ late n period as 1873. Since that
date, hay fever seems 10 have grown so
alarmingly in frequency that DR.. Mac.
ken2ie is iain 10 account for is rapid
development by supposing a new ac-
QUESTION Of irritating powers on the
part OF certain vegetable bodies. Surely,
however, It is more likely that, "'tis
we, It's ours, have changed, not it,"
IIelmholtz was the first author to set
forth a definite theory of hay fever,
which he believes to be produced by
vibrios Cths modish bacilli were not
then in yogue,) and he held that the
vibrios, though always existing in tho
mucous membrane ofthe nostril,, were
especially excited TO spasmodic activity
by summer heat. But it was DR.. Black
ley, Of Manchester, who led the way in
showing that this disagreeable com.
plant Is really due only to the pollen
Y of flowers and grasses. Instead Of max
ing his experiments IN corpore riii, DR..
Blackley made them on his own per.
son; he inhaled pollen, and arlilicially
acquired the complaint; and he proved
severity OF the disease bore a direct rela-
ton to the amount Of pollan in the air.
DR.. Mackenzie, treating tho matter In
the most vigorously scientific manner, d.
vides the cause Of summer catarrh into
two classes, the predisposing and the
exciting. The predisposing causes is OF
course the possession of n certain peou-
liar idiosyncrasy, dependent perhaps on
abnormality in the mucous membrane,
or in tho small veins and nerves with
which it is supplied. As usual, the nj.
innate nature Of the abnormality I'll
any, is too delicate for direct investiga.
ton. The id%iosyncrasy is generally do
vcloped quite suddenly, and when once
acquired il tends 10 increase most un.
pleasantly with each succeeding sum
mer. And the moral OF that Is: al
possible, avoid catching hay fever at al
for the first time, and you will mos
probably never catch it for the second. ;
Oddly enough, the id~iosyncrasy seem
almost confined To the English race
at home or in America; Scandina
vians, %Frenchmen, Germans nnC
Italians all enjoy n comparative i'm
munity. French and German doctor
in New York noticed no eases amonl
their compatriots there, though tn,
disease is painfully common among tn,
Americans proper. II is lattering b
our Anglo.Saxon intelligence that la.
fever also specially affects persons Q
some education and fair social pos
, ton In the West Indies, where vel
low fever rarely attacks people Of col
ored blood. light brown families mr.
quito proud II one Of their humble
! catches the aristocratic infection. and
. may, perhaps. be equally consolmg /
the sufferers from hay fever to lear
/ that in DR.. Merriman's experience III
complaint belongs principally to III
, upper and middle classes So niue
, is this the ease that farmers and ayr
. cultural laborcrs,' who are most Q,
posed to the exciting causes, seldoi
= suller from 1t. But In persons VIII
r possess the requisite idiosyncrasy. ID
i Blacklcy showed quito conclusivcly th,
: hay fever can be artiiicially produce
: by Inhalation Of pollen. Rye. whea
: oats and barley affect the mucous men
brane even moro powerfully than u
wild grasses. In America, however,
II n sort OF NORWOOD that oftene
, gives rise 10 the peculiar catarrhI
symptoms. II must be rememberC
9 that everywhere pollen is liable to To-
. in the air in large quantities during Il
Il towering season Of wind fertile,
y plants, like the grasses, cereals 81
" wormwoods, and hay fc,cr may Their
y fore possibly be caught even ut sea
y In the heart Of the great cities. Tn
ic showers Of pine pollen have fallen