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Show Hay Pever Theories. . (London Globe.) Some recent scientific investigations on the subject in Germany have not added very much to our knowledge as to the causes of the disease or the most effectual ef-fectual remedy. A great. many different theories are advanced by patients as to the origin in their own cases. One lady dfrjlared that she caught hay fever when-ej when-ej r-. she happened to think of it, while f Other said an attack would be brought 'j eay thinking of a cornfield. A third IJ atnt asserted that it would be pro-J pro-J jed-it cats came into the room; one Ir.s. heard before today of the sight of a oaf bringing on a fainting fit, and some hypersensitive persons have attributed a woon to the smell of a rose. The rather generally received opinion that the pollen of flowers is the cause of hay fever is not confirmed by Dr. Thost's experiments. The doctor is, unfortunately, unable to propound an effectual cure. There is a prophylactic, indeed, but some people would think the remedy as bad as the disease. It is to live in a place where there U no vegetation. On that account the island of Heligoland is much resorted to by German sufferers. There are spots on our own coasts where the condition is tolerably well fulfilled, and in any case it may be said that people who habitually suffer from hay fever" should take their holidays at the seaside rather than in the country. |