Show PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE Some Carious Facts About Hay reverend Suggestions for IU Treatment Tn a monograph upon hay fever and its treatment Dr Morell Mackenzie says that among races the English and American lymir classea tha ucnarmid cultivated and I I of the sexes tho males tire especially susceptible sus-ceptible to hay fever In tho north of Europe Eu-rope it is almost unknown It is rare in France Germany Italy and Spain whereas in England it is frequent and in America prevalent Again 99 per cent of its martyrs mar-tyrs are of the upper class whileagi icultural laborers who are most exposed to the cause of tho complaint aro less subject to its attacks at-tacks Lastly tho male sex is more liable to it than the female in tho proportion of three to one Ho gives its enusetbe entrance into the eyes and air channels of those predisposed pre-disposed to the ailment of minuto parfciea of vegetable matter from grasses and plants in flower and its euro chiefly cocaine in one form or another or residence in certain mountain or seashore localities which aro free from the disease Sir Andrew Clark is also quoted as suggesting sug-gesting the uso of cocaine for the relief of victims of hay fever He prefers a 10 percent per-cent solution applied to the nostrils with a camels hair brush A powder of cocaino with sugar of milk applied to the nasal cavities cavi-ties with an insufflator is recommended by another physician In support of the theory that this discus is caused by minuto particles of vegetable matter mat-ter a well known authority claims that at certain mountain resorts visitors thus afflicted find in the pollen of tho common plants known as golden rod and rag weed a great source of aggravation to then sufferings A correspondent of a medical journal confirms con-firms the abovo view by the caso of a patient of his a lady whoso inveterate attacks of severe se-vere hay fever every spring were found by him to be connected with the pollen of a plentiful species of alder peculiar to that part of tho country tho pollen being first found in tho nasal discharges of the patient by the microscope and afterwards identified in this alder alone Whenever tho lady left tho neighborhood of her home she would recover like magic Tho alders having been exterminated exter-minated by her order tho attacks of hay fever wero greatly mitigated though not entirely en-tirely prevented probably because of the alders remaining on neighboring estates Typhoid Fever from luijuuo Water M Dujardin Beaumetz recently described as au example of the danger of contracting typhoid fever from the uso of impure water tho caso of a family who took a house for a season at a fashionable resort They were warned not to drink tho well water as it was supposed to be impure They drank mineral water until the last day when in the hurry of packing they neglected to send for mineral water and concluded to try the well water Ten drank of it and six died four who had previously had typhoid fever wero made sick but recovered A microscopic examination of the well water revealed tho presence of the bacillus supposed to be the cause of typhoid ty-phoid fever Massage as i Tonic The muscles says a physician are the great furnaces of the body in them oxygenation oxygena-tion largely takes places and tho effete materials mate-rials aro burned off If the muscles aro rundown run-down and there is > no spare nerve energy to mako them work then you must supply the place of tho nerve current by massage and electricity Massage is a most powerful agent for ffecting nutritional changes and with the increased combustion and greater supply of food not merely the muscles but also the heart and every organ of the body are nourished ished lId nerve energy is stored up for future use Odors Sweet and Salutary It has lately been claimed that flowers and ho perfumes distilled from them have a salutary salu-tary influence on the constitution A foreign scientist says that residence in a perfumed atmosphere at-mosphere forms a protection from pulmonary affections nnd arrests tho development of hthisis He adds that in the town of La Jrasse where the making of perfumes is lamely carried on consumption is very rare thanks to tho odorous atmosphere produced II y the distilleries |