Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
HAY FEVER SUFFERERS.

Peculiar Symptoms Of n Strange Malady-
Change of cffmnre tho Best Remedy
The Queer Effect the Disease Has Upon
Some People.
Hay fever, rose cold, peach cold and their
KINDS are only slightly varying manifestations
Of the one widely spread and most torturing
disease-the asthma, which by some authorities
is thought to be entirely a nervous affection
and by others to be due to organic disease of
the heart lungs OF bronchial tubes. Both
views would seem to be correct, for there are
undoubtedly instances of purely spasmodic
asthma and others which are complicated with
organic affections, but in both the peculiar dis
tress OF asthma seems owing to some yet undis-
covered idiosyncIaey of the nervous system,
rendering itsusceptible to influences not at all
injurious to the normally constituted. In a
rev OF the more fortunate cases of hay fever
and Its congeners the symptoms are merely
those OF a violent cold in the head, accom-
panied by intense and ceaseless itching of
eyes, ears, nose, lips chin and palate; but gen.
erally this sort of suffering-bad enough,
though endurable-ls supplemented at night
Dy the hundredfold worse afhlchon OF asthma.
whether purely nervous or not, the suffer
Ing Is the same One who has ever experienced
paroxysm of asthma does not need TO be told
tnat his agonies are real and intense: or one
who has ever examined person SO suffering"
says DIR. Salter in his work on asthma, needs
no stronger proof than to see the immense
array of muscle that on the emergency be-
come accessory to the toll of the asthmatic IN
his struggle for BREATH and may guess at the
extremity OF the suffering that necessitates
such immense labor"
Symptoms of the Malady.
While the paroxysm lasts, at each inspiration
barely enough air 10 sustain life gains admit
tance to the lungs; and after the paroxysm-
which may last from one to six or even more
hours-the sufferer is oppressed by an mex
pressible languor and fatigue. The muscles of
the chest, sides. back and abdomen are as sore
and aching as if the victim had been toi,ing at
the washtub or digging bitches. while his whole
system is far more exhausted. To find out
what are the exciting causes for these parox-
ysms would seem to be simple matter says
New York World writer, but so far no more
has been aseertained than that there are places
where there is comparative or entireimmunity;
but no one place is alike good for all Many
persons escape the attacks of hay fever by 60
ing to Bethlehem, in the White Mountains.
but many others have found themselves still
worse off there, though at Nantucket they en-
tirely escape the attacks. Some find freedom
only on the pleasant slopes of the Western Con-
necticGG hills, while to others there is no safety
out. of New York City, and still others are
obliged to take sea voyage. 1t was long ago
settled that the name Of hay fever was a mis-
take for while the odor of new-mown hay, or
OF poisoning grass, may or may not be present
at the time of the first appearance of the
trouble, many cases of precisely the same char
acter appear earlier in the season and are called
rose colds, and others later are named peach
colds and autumn asthma, and others again
cover the time of all these, beginning in June
and continuing until the first hard frost, or uD-
til settled cold weather has come. BY special
perversity that which comes earliest usually
stays latest