New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-13
HAVE YOU HAY-FEVER /?
PEOPLE WHO HAVE WILL GIVE YOU SYM.
PATTY.
SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN HOLDING THEIB
ANNUAL CONVENTION AND DIS
cUssISG THE MALADY.


"Where are you going, my pretty maidI'
"Im going 70 snecze, kind sir" she san
AT whom viii you Sneeze my pretty maidT'
Atcho0 atchooi kind sr,' she said.
"The White Mountain Echop declares that II was ia
this fashion she sncczed OF It hayfever,
the tyrannical impacsble and everrestess hsyfever
But the truth about hay fever sneezes is that they
like lightning; they do not send up their cards
when making a call. They rush right up to you,
grab you by the nose, and then-well. just watch
man who has the hay-feverl So IL is more than
likely that this pretty maid didn't give the kind sr'
warning:
"Pm going to sneeze, kind sir' she said.
Her conversation, II she really met him, was prob
ably more like this nothing
"Atchoo atchoo / atehoolll' she saId
But this article is not written in spirit OF ievity
The subject is too serious, too painful and too har
rowing What the writer wishes to DO Is once
more TO call attention TO the hay-fever colony at
bethlehem n. IL. There may be yet sufferers from
this aicton who have not heard Of this asylum and
the work done there 1t Is for them that the writer
quotes the sneeze Of the pretty maid, and In part TO
ports the work Of the Eighteenth Annual Convention
CT the United states Hay Fever Association, held in
the Methodist Episcopal Church Of Bethlehem on Sep
ember l of this year. Perhaps one cannot do better
than to make extracts from the five years resume
OF Professor samuel Lockwood, the president
Professor Lockwood, after his introductory words,
said in part:
Among al the m&laQteS OF men, tnls Is INC Vbp
one which has crystaLed into an organic compdhioh
snip. IL came into being as the resultant OF TWO
f0rces-the attraction Of me social magnet anu Inc
gravtaton to a common eentre-the hope that 10 the
social impact OF suffering and inquiry migat DC i3nna
the secret Of relief, and p1rchance compete denver
ance. UnhappIy the first force grew inordinately,
well nigh eliminating the second The social slde
experences often1 if The narration was errane
Gus, due TO the want Of knowledge Of the path0iogea
oven to- medical formulate recommendcd as cures or
pallatives often with unhappy results: something
Though the work even there hardly elected cOnh
dence, as places were listed as exempt utterly UNI
worthy of such a record. Thanks 20 our painstaking
and si' the nc" '' "'' "''" "O'AsD ~ WV" '
tim Of nervous catarrh is the least logical His nat
ural instincts cheerful and enjoying relief In these
methods exacting attention or thoughtfulness Hence
see ability of high order ia my predecessor, whose
tact and genial nature enabled MIN to keep up the
word IS now in pace for the s9eietys more serious
of new life, of progression on new lines Ab1ut I'VE
years ago was that four guests Of The Twin all
Of the then status OF the e. 5 II. F. a. The cenve-
ton prevailed that Was the duty q the
to the malady hay fever 1t was mere quartet Of
John Van Voorhs of Rochester Dr. y. G. Hustled, Of
IaIryt w1 The fourth we nay not meDton sub
the Twin with generous response. This was fol-
lowed at Bethlehem, Tie first move was an effort
TO get the medical fraternity TO work by Offering
premium for the best essay on hay fever. This was
awarded to Or. S. 5. Bishop OF Chicago. second
beallty Of one OF the gentlemen mentioned above the
writer was given an equal award. The essays were
impetus was given the movement; and valuable papers
have appeared I'm the manuals ever since.
At a meeting held in this place five years ago your
present speaker outlined scheme Of work upon the
microscopic, he has since attempted for the society.
Hence; for the first time, upon the HYPOTHESIS o.
of pollen In hay fever This followed by
three seasons work on the hygien" oi the at
fever Tho place chosen as the non exempt place
was my home in New-Jersey, and the Others were in
and The Waumbek,D in succession. This sertes in
volved considerable work such as is legitimate TO the
fever in the atmosphere The etology, pathology
and clinics proper belong TO the scientific physician.
warm appreciation rs data in the problem 70 be solved
right n We mss asGe @s t Mc SoSy Gs d 5ns
known quantities are Necessary to obtain the mn
the theory Of a neurosis which had before. been $
hypothesis. This at once set hay fever apart from tie
really nervous malady at botomUand so has very
appropriately been called nervous cat9Irh. Nothing
this inquiry which concerns o. knowledge Of the
individual or personal constitution ~ and rs out
ido 5% Said nv physIcian You lave favor
able temperament It is one that responds promptly
Compartments, which are formulated With somewhat
the bilious and the lymphatic.
At the late International Medical Congress at VI
emma Or. Paul Gibier communicated scheme from
chemical point OF view. lie noted in those whose Sc
cretions were alkaline relative addiction 10 certain
maladieS and exemption from some Others. And SIM
ary, in those with acid secrctiOns pecusrltics Of
P and fXemp2n a rs to other dSsss
were neutral Hence the Patth9t0csl conditions
the %PGR aff the or Td%
when we reflect how much the health Go
see bearing i Se here on hay ever ever ~
But the problem must also take in the outer rela
Is in this direction. that such as fee 70 these
mountains. Tho factors here are almoN entirely at
how serious, the recent visitstione % "a gr'ppe,5
How many constitutions has 1t shattered. leaving II
nerve tissue hut let us not overlook things. For long
previously there were similar tidal peodicites Of snf
Of Oceanica-epidcmcs Of influenza shifting rlthessy
We wonder and philosophize upon the keenness Of
sense when Pug picks ont from among many Others
his mstress Glove NAY i nor bs oto 0e ,,nts s
thus cOntaCion comes Fe an unseen influence SONG
and this hypenestheSia supHrenthi Is further
reaching than We NAV suspect for albeit the fad about
the artificial life the soeaed child OF nature Is not
spared. Hence can We not see That on ms subject,
is needed In a private letter DR.. Bishop commends
tho atmospheric work on the atmosphere already done
by the society. but he row the widening OF the
scope by taking in the physics Of the air. namely.
the barometrc, thermometrc and electric conditions
the maady for good or evil All this, you recall,
included in our scheme preached here some Years
ago.
II appears to that the grip, and those land
colds or infuenzas mentioned. all at their base
nervous ailments. But TO be conscious that is
municable by the virus carriers We must suppose
bacterial microbes. ! have not yet found with the
microscope any bacteria that could with confidence
connect with hay-fever But as irritans. have sas-
pectcd the OF such for az times when in
parative comfort have boanized in the skirts Of
forest an attack Of severity would invariably come
upOn me- and this would be than upon entering
the depths Of the woods Now, i Is true that the
disnteerating of epithea and other vegetable dust
would be active because OF greater exposure 10
the winds the borders Of the woods. but IL has been
shown that bacteria numerous there also, the
fringe OF the forest serving coarse filter to the
air when impeled a wind. Scientific work not
seen i'm its proper connection Is generally without
meaning, piece Of tapestry looked at the wrong
side.
F. b. Fay in his address first propounded this riddle:
Why is the hay fever like tie vOte' Because the
ewes and both appear to have it, lie added:
"The only remedy Is 10 90 to exempt place. / have