The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-31
POLLEN POISON
HAY FEVER HAS BEEN GIvEN A
NEW AND MODERN NAME,
But II 10 the Same Old Disgusting
Inniction. and This IL the Season
for 1t.
This is the hay fever season.

This is the hay fever season.
1t is also the season for several other
varieties OF diseases and cistempers. more
or less closely allied TO bay fever, AMI all
as productive Of misery as the sevea-year
itch.
The doctors can tell what hay f.ver 10
due to easily enough, but they can't cure
to ga super sensitive state OF the men,
branes Of the air passages"
Exactly, but there is not bit OF com
fort IN his when you are sneezng your
head of. gasping for breath. your eyes
trying TO outdo Jupiter Pluvius, and you
are feeling generally rs though you had
been picking stone every day for month.
All the theories regarding hay fever.
or as tho doctors sometimes prefer
to call 1t. pollen poison. fall 10 the
ground in different cases. What Is
one mans pollen poison Is not another
mans pollen poison. But people who
are afflicted with Il have a constitutional
predisposltioa to catarrhal or bronchial
disorders, subject themselves to strongly
marked alterations OF temperature be-
tween Gay aud night, or are poisoned by
decaying vegetation.
when It Comes Along.
When hay fcver comes along and camps
with you it makes itself known by a
burning irritation around the eyes, and
all the symptoms of violent cold in the
head, accompanied BY sensations that
might be produced by myriads Of Invisi-
BILE insects gamboling around the face
near the mouth. la the nose and under
tho chin, while In the ear and throat pas
sages is an Itching sensation that Is
intolernble
When the dews of evening begin TO
gather the more seriously afflicted vic
tins begin TO experience the horrors OF a
slow suffocstion. The sensation is that
Of q gradual closing OF all the passages by
which air Is admitted to the lungs, and
tnen tho lungs labor like ship in a
heavy storm.
The Hsart Labors.
Tho heart labors but seems only to make
half strokes like a pendulum unduly
painfully Tue eyeballs are rel and in
famed. Speech aud motion become very
difficult. and q reclining posture npos-
sible. This In hay fever's elimination
asthma in short.
Every night Of such agony Ia "a nail In
ones coffin." Notwithstanding the old
saving that ''asth matics never die, there
are recorded cases of death in the par
oxysms Of asthma, while there are hosts
OF Instances where the continual irrita-
tion OF lungs and bronchial tubes and
the labored heart action have resulted In
fatal disorders.
Hcw to Ours It
An absolutely sure cure for all cases OF
hay fever is to leave he spot woere the
disease II contracted for another which
agrees.
The puzzling thing about the fever is
that precisely the same symptoms may
affict John Jones in the White noun
taius anu John Brown on the seashore,
aud both may be entirely relieved bv re-
versing the situations. sending John
Jones to the SEA aud John Brown 10 the
mountains.
In either case the more barren the spot
the more likely 1t II to be free from ex-
citing causes.
During the daytime the afflicted per-
soa is usually SO free from the paroxysms
OF his disease that one who saw him only
then would hardly believe his case
for pity.
During these hours of relief he should
not do any work. but devote himself
to rest and sleep, eating lightly of the
most nourishiog and easily digested
food.
An asthmatic needs air fresh and pure
but hot. Cold air adds to the infiamma-
ton Of the bronchial tubes aud In
cresses the difficulty Of inspiration.
His room should be we'll aired and well
warmed aud he should be kept In bed IL
p pDssible, though he cannot lie down, for
there he can be protected.