. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . mfort andhave her stay out. Keep her out much of the time during the day her up well. These are the lines toward which to look for help ratherthan applications of oil and other things to the chest. HAY FEVER For a long time people scoffed at hay fever; said the sufferers were hys-terics, neurasthenics, and faddists; that everybody had summer colds; thatthe poor man called his sickness a cold and stayed at home; while the richman called his hay fever and took a long vacation. There are still people whoscoff, but they are not so aggressive as they were.
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . mfort andhave her stay out. Keep her out much of the time during the day her up well. These are the lines toward which to look for help ratherthan applications of oil and other things to the chest. HAY FEVER For a long time people scoffed at hay fever; said the sufferers were hys-terics, neurasthenics, and faddists; that everybody had summer colds; thatthe poor man called his sickness a cold and stayed at home; while the richman called his hay fever and took a long vacation. There are still people whoscoff, but they are not so aggressive as they were. Medical science has gone far enough to clear the hay fever sufferers of thecharge of bad faith, without, however, having gone far enough to cure or pre-vent the disease with any degree of certainty. The science has worked outthe basic, pathologic principle of the disease, has found a way to help some 48 BRONCHITIS—HAY FEVEK cases, but for the great majority it cannot do much more than tell them whento run and where to run Fig. 18.—Wormwood (artemesia absinthium). (Dr. William Scheppegrell.) For a long time it has been known that certain persons were capable ofbeing violently poisoned by substances which were not in the least poisonousto the general run of people. For instance, while hay fever appears at any timeof the year, two usual varieties are recognized—the spring and the fall. Thehind that comes in the spring is attributed to the pollen of different hinds ofgrasses, hays, and sedges. HAY FEVER 49 In addition a man having an idiosyncrasy toward horses would sneezeviolently whenever he came near one. Another would eat a salad containingsome lobster, and within a few hours would be badly broken out. A certain physician took anti-plague serum when he was working at thesuppression of plague in California. For ten years thereafter, and perhapseven yet, he broke out in great wheals whenever he got into cold water. A term used to designate this peculiarity was idiosyn
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