HAY FEVER

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 116, 27 September 1895, Page 3

HAY FEVER

This affection, one of the troubles that people whenever suffer from it laughat.is a very troublesome matter, and. the sufferer is really entitled to pi!y. It makes life iu the country at certain seasons a martyrdom. There is, it is believed, no certain remedy beyond removal from the cause, and the cause is indicated by the name—it is the odour of certain flowering grasses. The remedy here suggested is m many cases impracticable, and the only thing loft is to resort to palliative measures. The wearing of a respirator, composed of cotton, wool, or other impervious material, will be useful during the season of haymaking, ami the inhalation of the vapour of camphor, gives relief during a paroxysm. Menthol mixed with carbonate of ammonia and put in a smelling bottle has been recommended, and Drs. Thomson and Steel mentioned that dining a pyroxyam the smoking of tobacco, if continued until a slight nausea come on, generally gives relief. “ Such is the rol'ef to the breathing iu some cases that the patient has been known to fall asleep with the pipe in his mouth, so gieat has been the previous exhaustion from the struggle for breath. ’ This remedy, we take it, would be effeclive only in the ease of women and of men who are not habitual smokers. The sufferer should endeavour to strengthen his system when free from an attack,—From “Cottage Gardening,” ,