| Show WILL AT LAST FIND RELIEF tuo tito doctors claim to have discovered Disco ered cute cuie for ilay hay fever As the result of a series of laboratory laboi atory experiments and the treatment of several patients dr seymour cl mer iner and dr mark i gottlleb gottlieb of now new york have announced in a preliminary leport the cure of a number of pel sons Bolls bt ring aiom hay bevet by the injection of the extract of the plant pollen io for tile the ailment in tho the individual cases not all pel pelson sons 3 so BO treated wele cured and moreover the physicians tile aie not yet certain how bow effective tile tho treatment will prove to be it may be necess necessary arv to repeat it each year with tile tho I 1 onset of the hay ay fever season the object of the lie t tois toia was to find a substance that would immunize persons who had suffered suf feied aiom tile the dig dh ailment against further attacks and clience the prelim inacy bears tile the title the active immunization of I lay ilay F fever ever the reboil I 1 was read before the hailem hai lem medical association I 1 t appeals appeal s in the now new boik medical journal as the insult of work on by tile the two physicians in the physiological chemical laboratory of tho college of physicians and rui and the fol foi clinical res re eatch after di discussing the cause and symptoms of hay fevel the investigators lemack hay fedei Is due to a son sen of an individual by the conveyance of pollen contents through the tract must be at tile the time of sensitization an all abrasion of tile the mucous membrane so 80 as to make paren parente tei ial al absorption possible in all likelihood there exists in the patient an individual susceptibility to this particular dismast which seems to have some le ie lation to heredity for this and other allied ailments are quent quant in given families next they describe tile the method of finding just what particular pollen affects a given individual in view of known facts concerning tile the disease and deductions basa upon their theli theody y of an effective method of treating tile the ailment the physicians concluded that it should be possible to employ one of fo four all methods which they enumerate as follows follow sc 1 I 1 by injecting a dose of pollen extract just before the hay fever time and repeating the procedure procedure jure in twenty to thirty hours 2 by injecting a large quantity of immune serum during the attack this we have accomplished in one of our cases pr from 0 in G 0 a pat lent who received ived forty five injections of ragweed extract we took about two ounces of blood from a vein we injected eight cube centimeters of the sern aeri urn um into a patient 13 years of age during a violent attack of hay fever before the expiration of six alx hocius all symptoms of hay fever disappeared from this little patient find and no sight of the disease returned during the season 3 by injecting very small amounts of pollen extract at intervals of ten en days or less so that only minute quantities of are formed and the patients ot lerance is raised 4 by injecting very small doses of made in the laboratory to produce the same results as in method no 3 the method of preparing tile the extract to Is described in detail here to Is a summary of the results of the treatment eleven cases were treated in 1914 before and during the season for autumnal catarrh six cases were treated in advance of the attack one of these was clied for the season and one was not improved five cases were dui ing ang the attack the lymp toms toma of four subsided af tei 10 i v belving from one to in sections whereas ont one patient received no benefit altogether there were five cures for foi tile the season in four cases was marked improve went in two cases there was no improvement of the two cases that not improved one had nasal the patient had distinct asthmatic attack every night and it was impossible to say whether the attacks were due to his ha hay y fever or his local nasal condition |
