Show WHY HY HAY FEVER An An Ah eastern newspaper suggests that men of or medicine turn their at atte attention at- at te to hay fever fevel There is no doubt that a remedy for this distressing distressing dis- dis dis lIs- and m mysterious ous malady malad would prove pro a great blessing for or a large largie number of persons poisons throughout the world We Ve call all It a mysterious malady because it is so What hat is Its Its Its' cause and why must trust its victims of all they suffer annually ally in spite o all event its recurrence Tho Those e do to pi prevent upon whom it has laid its hold know almost to a day when they will hi bl called upon to again endure e us its t ago ag ag- o onies Because hay fever is more prevalent preval- preval ent in August than in an any other that thai month it is popularly supposed l pollen ollen from flowers is tile the cause nut Sut why wily pollen front from Augusts August s flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers and not from those blooming in I other months of the year To 10 answer answer answer an an- that the adherents adhere of the pollen pollen pollen pol pol- len theory pick on the golden rod lod But ha hay fever claims its victims in places where there is no golden rod and residents of large cities who never nover are within miles of that popular popular popular lar wild flower at an any time often suffer the most severely And if it pollen is the cause of the disease wh why are not all who live in the country coun coup tr try afflicted and all who live in the city it immune The writer who suggested that physicians turn their attention to hay fever may or may not be bc a sufferer sufferer sufferer suf suf- ferer but in any event he lie puts up to them a puzzle worthy of their fullest consideration That it is not ordinarily a fatal malady does not make malc the hay fever problem less important The fact that it seemingly seeming seeming- ly is such a simple and more or less harmless affliction makes It seem that the answer r to the the problem should be easy to di discover cover Seem of a similar nature to influenza it Is not often fatal but it causes a great amount of suffering each year ear earThe The very mysteriousness of the disease should be a sufficient motive mo mo- motive tive to en cause ll e some physician to determine de de- ermine termine to conquer it |