Autumnal Catarrh (hay Fever)Hurd and Houghton, 1876 - 221 Seiten |
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affected annoying annual return appeared arrived asthma August 15 August 20 August 20th Autumnal Catarrh Boston breathing Cambridge catarrhal symptoms Catskill Mountain House Catskill Mountains cause ceased commenced Complete relief conjunctiva continued cough critical period diminished disappeared discharge disease Dixwell dust elevation England Entire relief escaped eyes favus feet Fire Island flowers frost germs Glen House Gorham Hay Fever Henry Ward Beecher hour inflamed influence irritation Isles of Shoals itching Jefferson Jefferson Hill June Cold Lake last week less severe Mass miles morning Mountain House mucous membrane nasal nervous night non-catarrhal nose nostrils obstruction October paroxysms persons Philadelphia places produce Profile House quinine relief at Gorham residence River Roman wormwood sea-coast sea-side season sensitive skin slight sneezing spasmodic stage throat tion treatment trouble usual vegetation Waumbec weather week in September White Mountain region Wyman York
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Seite 25 - As soon as you left Boston I went to the country, and stayed two or three days with Mr. Haven. I was far from being well, and one day quite sick. Sometimes the force of the catarrh seems pretty much broken, and then it returns, attacking the head, eyes, nose,, etc., with great violence. I think it is approaching its last stage, which is the asthmatic stage.
Seite 141 - The strength of this theory consists in the perfect parallelism of the phenomena of contagious disease with those of life. As a planted acorn gives birth to an oak competent to produce a whole crop of acorns, each gifted with the power of reproducing its parent tree; and as thus from a single seedling a whole forest may spring ; so, it is...
Seite 138 - In every part of the body of man and the higher animals, and probably from the earliest age, and in all stages of health, vegetable germs do exist.
Seite 54 - ^.temperature of 36° to 40° at sunrise is usually attended with frosts destructive to vegetation, the position of the thermometer being usually such as to represent less than the actual refrigeration at the open surface.
Seite 13 - ... sneeze. If you sneeze once you sneeze twenty times. It is a riot of sneezes. First, a single one like a leader in a flock of sheep, bolts over ; and then, in spite of all you can do, the whole flock, fifty by count, come dashing over, in twos, in fives, in...
Seite 176 - ... direction. There are few inhabitants in these mountains, and no company, except tourists, who pass along rapidly, and disturb no one's repose. The weather has been fine, and my health improves daily ; yet it is not perfect, as the complaint which attacked me at Harrisburg, still more or less annoys me. I have never had confidence that I should be able to avert entirely the attack of catarrh ; but I believe that at least, I shall gain so much in general health and strength as to enable me, in...
Seite 142 - The application of these experiments is obvious. If a physician wishes to hold back from the lungs of his patient or from his own, the germs by which contagious disease is said to be propagated, he will employ a cotton-wool respirator.
Seite 7 - ... SYMPTOMS AND COURSE. — No better description of an attack of the autumnal form of hay fever has ever been written than that of Wyman, who, being himself a sufferer from the disease, has had exceptional opportunities for studying it in all its details. I therefore extract the following from his work :* "All the cases agree in the time of annual return, about the 20th of August, varying but a few days from this date in different years. By some individuals it is believed to be remarkably punctual,...
Seite vi - In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. This being done, the clear and natural phenomena of the disease should be noted — these, and these only.
Seite 143 - ... to which there is due a certain succession of processes, to be completed in a certain time ; which time and processes may vary with the constitution and condition of the patient, and may tend to death, or to recovery, but are not known to be shortened, or greatly changed, by medical treatment.