Evening star., 1911-08-16

had no effect I'm overcoming the power
the mental suggestion Of horses had upon
his nervous system.
Aside from these cases. caused by the
attitude Of the mind. there is no doubt
but h a I
Blame Is Now Placed cases the
on Pollen Toxin Germ. ai,msnt
comes directly from a germ which comes
in contact with the membrane OF the
nose at time when it is in q condition
to be easily irritated. This germ comes
from plants and is called pollen toxin.
Consequently it seemed logical to treat IT
by an anti-toxin and Prof. w. F. Dun
bar few years ago formulated an anti
toxin for hay fever from blood serum
taken from horses which had been treat
ed with the pollen toxin. At first this
remedy was hailed with enthusiasm as
being the true cure for hay fever. but 1t
has not been as efficacious as hoped for.
1t is now in general use by the medical
profession, however. and experiments are
constantly being made to test its effi-
cacy. physician who has lately been
specializing in hay fever reports upon
222 cases treated last year by this anti
toxin. He claimed cure In 127 cases,
or 81 per cent. Improvement in n cases.
cases, or IL per cent.
At the convention Of the hay fever
association an effort will be made toward
securing some other cure. Several
surgeons are considering the subject from
their standpoint and there are q large
number of cases now on record which
seem to have been permanently cured by
a slight nasal operation. 1t is doubtful.
however. II surgery has as much effect
as medicine on the majority of cases, al
though it is one Of the newer treatments.
The question of a change of climate is
also one likely to come up. There are
various places in the country said to be
absolutely free from hay fever. and these
localities naturally appeal to sufferers.
But in most cases where a patient goes
to hay fever resort to alleviate his suf-
fering the relief is only temporary, since
1t is likely to return to him II he again
encounters the cause Of irritation. While
many physicians will recommend a
change of residence to their patients, they
feel that their doing so involves a certain
sense of failure of their own efforts.
There is much choice to be exercised in
regard to the selection of location for
hay fever relief 1t sometimes happens that
one person is relieved in a place that ag-
gravates the suffering OF another. Cen
orally speaking. any high. dry situation
relieves the ailment, although to some
sufferers sea air is helpful. Mackinac
Island has been a hay fever resort for
two generations, and there are many
other places along the great lakes that
possess equal advantages. Most people
find that tho very worst cases will not
survive twenty-four hours on the ocean,
consequently those in the ocean travel
class have one means Of relief always
open to them.
The principal symptoms are severe
cold in the head. involving continually
we ping
Cold in the Head nose. a
Most Common Symptom. heaaacns eon,snus'
bad cough and occasionally a high
fever. There are two forms of hay
fever. catarrhal and asthmatic. Usually
the early attacks are catarrhal, and the
later ones asthmatic. Quite frequently
asthmatic hay fever results in a chronic
asthma.
While many. people may seem to be
absolutely immune from hay fever, con-
1t. The irritating germ frequently exists
upon grain, especially that which is in
bad condition Six threshers last year
in New England village were all sud
denly stricken with the disease, although
not one of them had ever had it before,
and 1t had been unknown to that locality.
They had been threshing grain which
was smutty and moldy, and all six were
stricken with a violent attack within
few hours Of each other.
A travelling man who is chronic hay
fever victim last summer went to a
mountain resort during the period when
he was most subject to the ailment. At
the expiration Of six weeks he started
upon a business trip sanguine Of having
this time escaped his annual affiiction
AS he went down into the valley, how
ever. grain was being harvested, and
while passing through Indiana he was
stricken severely. He was on the train,
and being unable to sleep after his berth
was made up. he went into the smoking
car. There he found no less than seven
fellow sufferers. Three OF them like him
self had just come from health resorts.
and three others were on their. way to
some places where they expected to get
relief.
1t is rather an odd feature of the dis
ease that it is much more likely to at
tack men than women. or the cases on
record it is said that more than two
thirds OF them are male. Women do suf-
fer from it, however. and generally their
attacks are even harder for the doctor to
cope with than those Of the men. The
disease seldom attacks children.
Tomorrow-sODA FOUNTAINS.