White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-14
HAY FEVER SEASON
IS LEAVING ITS MARK

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siderable number of the human pop
ulation would be found suffering
from hay fever While the disease
I-or affiiction-if OF the summer. its
vicious characteristics appear to
reach their peak during the month
of August, with its dry heat and dry
winds. Concerning il doctors are di-
vided in their opinions. In justice
to the profession the majority of
practitioners do not encourage the
hope of a cure, confining their views
to the belief that relief by local
means may be provided, but beyond
that, when the hay fever season rolls
around, the victims must make up
their minds to grin and bear it.
| The person suffering the tortures
OF the damned from hay fever gets
but scanty sympathy from the person
who for some reason or other is i'm
mune The latter looks upon the
sneezing victim as an unfortunate
weakling who should overcome the
trouble and behave lie fails ut
terly to realize that in time a hay
fever subject becomes an irresponsi-
BILE individual, physically unfit and
mentally out of balance and gener-
ally inefficient. From six to eight
weeks during the hot months of days
| given 70 streaming eyes, dripping
nostriis and homeric coughing, and
| nights passed i'll vain endeavor to
sleep between the periods of weep
ing, sneeZing. coughing and gasping
for breath. tend to undermine the
physical health and moral RESPONSE
bility of the afflicted person. By in
terfering with the nights sleep of
the rest of the family he gets in bad
with the home circle. and by report
ing for work while looking like the
fag end of months drunk and feel
ing like it he is in equally bad with
the boss. The subject is too serious
to joke about
Scientific individuals are studying
the subject and endeayoring to corral
the particular cause and provide i'm
munitv. 1t has been determined that
what causes hay fever in one person
will not cause 1t in another and vice.
versa. II is said that serum treat
ment is proving effective. and the
remedy sounds reasonable A recent
number of the Scientific American
contains a comprehensive article on
the horrors of and remedies for hay
fever by a learned professional man,
and The Pathfinder. a sane and seri-
ously-minded publication. reproduces
the same article in condensed form
under the caption Hope for the Sum-
mer Sneezer." IL offers a ray of en-
couragement that perhaps science Is
at last on the verge of discovering the
! way to eliminate this worldwide
scourge.
Persons afflicted with hay fever.
rose colds and similar warm-weather
ailments stand good chance of be-
ing cured if certain medical expert
ments are an indication, says the ar
tiele in question. 1t has been found
that inoculation with certain vaccine
made up of the pollens of plants
which induce the sneezing will bring
immediate or ultimate relief This
modern application of the ancient
remedy of "a nair of the dog that bit
you is also said TO work we'll in 9TH
er cases of queer and unusual poison
ings.
Literally. cat hair. dog hair, chick
en- feathers and similar things, az
we'll as pollens of all sorts of trees
from the ash to tire willow; grains
and weeds ard many foodstuffs are
equally guilty of poisoning suscepti-
bic persons in one way or another.
Certain individuals are affected by
certain things. whether these enter
the system through the mouth or
nose. The symptoms are usually
bronchial or asthmatic. often bring
ing on slight fever with skin erup-
tlons. The experiments tend to show
that increasing doses of the offend
ing protein, if injected into the sys-
TEN, will establish immunity dag
hcsis Is made by scratching the skin
9 Il /.
and rubbing thereon a dilute prepa-
ration of the suspected matter to see
II it has any effect. Sometimes il Is
necessary to try out many of the
suspects before the right one is
found.
The opinion is prevalent that gold
cnrod causes summer colds. Rag
weed and many other plants are
equally guilty. The pollen contains
o peculiar poison that the merest
trace--one twenty-five miilionth OF a
mi1ligram-will irritate a suscepti-
BILE subject but has no influence upon
a normal person. The smell OF roses,
peaches. animals. eggs, etc. will set
up a similar condition in some peo.
pie, but, though the cause is differ
ent. the remedy is closely allied. In
the case OF hay fever. for instance,
the antitoxic serum can be taken in
ternally or applied to the nose and
eyes.
A queer case of poisoning" was
that of the Harvard student who
could not bear trace of egg in any
food and committed suicide rather
than suffer ridicule. The medical
fraternity now says that such cases
can ne cured by the vaccine method.
Iumbermen in the north woods VINO
are susceptible to poison ivy make
point to eat few leaves OF it on first
entering the woods. The violent ILL
ness thus induced is said to render
them immune for the rest OF the
season. The same is true of poison
sumac. A widow of a famous med.
ical expert loathed birds. She was
cured by application of a protein OF
feathers. A New York dramatic crit
ic suffered nausea whenever he saw
\ cat Treatment with cat hairs