Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-08-31
SERUM FOR HAYFEvER,
American Doctor Now a Professor in
Germany, Finds Serum that Will
Cure that Disease,

germany, flnos serum that Will
Cure that Disease.
Professor w. P Dunbar, who has
produced serum for the cure of hay
fever, is in New York on his way to
the st. Louis exposition, where he
will take charge of the German gov
eminent exhibit relating to hay fever
and it's cure. He arrived in New
York at dramatic moment, for this
is the hay fever season.
Prof. Dunbar is a German scientist
and yet he isn't He was born in St
Paul, of American parents. He went
to Germany as a student and remained
there. He has become thoroughly
Germanized. He is now a.. the heal
Of the state hygienic institute at Ham
burg. The "only American govern.
ment Official IN GERMANY he call:
himself.
He began to work on hay fever
about ten years ago, taking up that
disease because he himself was sub
ject to it.
The disease is not germ com
plant" he said. 1T is caused by the
chemical action of certain kinds OF
pollen. In Europe rye grass makes
the most trouble. Here in the United
States the dangerous plants are gold.
enrol and ragweed. Indian corn is
also dangerous, though not to so great
a degree. The hay fever season be-
gins in August, just when the pollen
is flying.
At first scientists thought that all
these problems carried minute barbs,
which set up local irritation. But
l found that while this is true of the
goldenrod, for example, it is not true
of Indian corn, which gives off per-
fectly smooth pollens. So by tedi-
GUS process of elimination and analy-
sis l located in albumen.
Take rye grass, for example. An
analysis of one grain of it's pollen
shows, water, 1912 per cent; inorganic
matter, 3.4 per cent; organic matter
1914 per cent. This organic matter
contains 3 per cent of fats, Is per
cent of carbohydrates, 10 per cent of
heterogeneous non-albumenOus substan-
ces and 40 per cent of poisonous
albumens.
with these poisonous albumens I
completed my experiments. A solu-
ton of the substance dropped into the
eye of person subject to hay fever
produces all the symptoms at any
time of the year. There is enough of
it in one grain of rye grass pollen to
infect 100000 hay fever patients.
"The wind carries the pollen widely
hundreds of miles in fact. That is
the season why it is epidemic in the
city as we'll as in the country just now.
When the steamer was nearly five
hundred miles from the land this trip
l caught a slight attack from an off,
shore breeze.
"Only certain persons are subject
and they are mostly brain workers.
There is some nervous connection, not
yet fully understood, between brain
fatigue and the weakening men,
branes which hay fever attacks.
Americans are especially subject to it,
owing to the high pressure of Ameri-
can life, l suppose Old cases of in
fiuenza sometimes cause a predispo-
sftion to the disease. Susceptibility
to hay fever also is hereditary.
my remedy is a toxin prepared
like other toxins, by injecting poison
GUS matter into horses. In this part
OF my work I found a curious thing.
Only 10 per cent of the horses we
tried are sound and those sensitive
horses were all thorobreds. A horse
has to receive steady injections for
ten months before its condition will
yield the proper strength of serum.
II this serum is mixed with albumen-
Gus poison and put into the eye Of
the person subject to the disease there
will be no hay fever reaction at ALL"