This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...influence of race is seen in the fact that it is the English and Americans who are almost the only sufferers from the complaint. In the 1 Autumnal Catarrh. New York, 1872. 2 Hay Fever. London, 1873, and second edition, 1880. 3 Hay Fever; or, Summer Catarrh. New York, 1876. 4 Hay Fever; or, Pollen ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...influence of race is seen in the fact that it is the English and Americans who are almost the only sufferers from the complaint. In the 1 Autumnal Catarrh. New York, 1872. 2 Hay Fever. London, 1873, and second edition, 1880. 3 Hay Fever; or, Summer Catarrh. New York, 1876. 4 Hay Fever; or, Pollen-poisoning. Read before the New Jersey Medical Society, 1877. 5 Archives of Laryngology, 1882, vol. iii., p. 157. 6 New York Med. Journ., May 12, 1883. 'Wien. med. Wochenschrift, 1882-83. 8 In this respect the idiosyncrasy is like idiosyncrasies in general. The existenoe of these personal peculiarities is too well known to require much comment. Many people cannot eat crabs, lobsters, or strawberries without being attacked with urticaria. Others, again, cannot eat mutton or white of egg without being sick. One of the most interesting cases of idiosyncrasy, and peculiarly appropriate to the present subject, inasmuch as it was brought into operation through the nasal mucous membrane, was that of Schiller, to whom the smell of rotten apples was so beneficial that he could not "live or work without it" (Lewes: Life of Goethe, London, 1864, second edition, p. 381). north of Europe--that is, in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark--it is scarcely ever seen, and it rarely affects the natives of France, Germany, Russia, Italy, or Spain. In Asia and Africa, also, it is only the English who suffer. As far as I have been able to ascertain, the complaint is more common in the south of England than in the north; while in the north of Scotland it is very rare. In America it occurs in nearly every State, though diminishing in frequency toward the south. I think it extremely likely that the disorder will be found in Australia and New Zealand, but I am not aware...
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