OCR Text |
Show wj CANYON GIVES RELIEF IN HAY FEVER. Hay fever Is the bane of countless thousands and yet there Is no cure. But experiments are being made which promise much. Dr. Brown of Minneapolis, according to the Journal of the Medical association, has my.v experiments in vaccination Dr Brown collected some ragweed pollen. He ground up one drachm o( this in one ounce of glycerine. This was filtered and brought up to two ounces with water To the mixture were added five drops of strong car bollc acid. He washed his son's arm with ether, placed a drop of the pollen pol-len solution on the skin, and made a vaccination scratch through It. This tcratch healed promptly Three days later the process was repeated. In ;i short while the skin around the wound looked like the hives. Dr. Brown suggests that people start with this solution diluted one to one million; that the vaccinations done once or twice a week, and that the strength of the solution be in creased as rapidly as possible with out producing hive-like swelling All of this is to be done before the attack is due. At the New York cancer hospital, Dr Clowes has been working on the nature of hay fever He found that hay fever subjects were exceedingly sensitive to pollen Those who had fall attacks were sensitive to autumn blooming plants, those who had spring attacks were affested by the pollen of 9prlng blooming plants, while those who were subject to both spring and fall attacks were sensitive to bofjt spring and fall pollens. Dr. Clowes vaccinated through th? skin and alBo injected hypodermlcally He got both local and constitutional symptoms somewhat an they are fTi hay fever. It seeniR positively proved that hay fever is not an Imaginary disease and the sufferers have not always been justly treated. It seems also to be proved that the nose 1b not all Important Most peo- plo are affected through their noses People with polyps, enlarged bones, Infected cavities (the so called catarrh) ca-tarrh) are more liable to Infection than other people. To treat the nose will prevent some attacks and cure others All of this Is true, yet the nose Is not all Important. Hay fever can be caused by vaccina tion of the skin and by Injection under un-der the skin. If this information stops the use of cocaine and morphine snuffs and washes for hay fcer, it will have done enough good. Dr Clowes Is working on a vaccine to prevent the disease and a remedy to cure It A few favorable results have been had .Many people get relief, at the height Of the hay fever season, by camping In Ogden canyon oo |