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Show HAY FEVER, NERVES AND CATS Most Interesting is an article In the last issue of Scientific American on hay fever, written by Dr. J. H. Hubor, who says two factors obtain In most casoB, a nourotlc Idiosyncrasy and an unusually Irritable condition of tho upper up-per air passages, but ho classes all hay fever as asthma, and says: "Many unfortunate pooplo have asthma asth-ma only whon they aro exposed to some direct cause; others havo constantly con-stantly recurring attacks without any manifest causo. And when, by diligent dili-gent search, the underlying cause in tho latlor caaeB is revealed and eradicated, eradi-cated, lmmedlato relief and not Infrequently Infre-quently cure Is achloved. Among easily eas-ily ascertained direct causes aro nasal polypi, deflected nasal sopta, chronic rhinitis, adenoids, enlarged tonsils and other untoward conditions. While suoh things oxlst, no hay fever case is ever really curod palliation only Is afforded; whilst vast improvement will follow upon the masterful treatment treat-ment by tho "noso and throat mon," though the Irritable condition (fundamentally (funda-mentally a neurosis) may remain. Then there are all kinds of dust. In street dust under the mlcroscopo, ono sees nil manner of molds, fungi, bac terla and many other most offensive particles both organic and inorganic. "Many odors of pitch, phosphorus, sulphur chemical vapors; the emanations emana-tions of dogs, horses, hares, cats will ; excite athmatlc paroxysms. 'Some men are mad,' declared Shylock, 'when they do smell at cat.' And Weir Mitchell's cousin, a man in all other respects of most normal temperament, could not endure a cat In the house, let alone Its presence visible to him. He could 'sonso' a cat's being in an adjoining room. And Weir Mitchell based a most absorbing article on alluropho-bia, alluropho-bia, the fear of cats, upon his phenomenon. phenom-enon. Most of all the smells of such plants as ipecac, and of flowers, the effluvia of certain grasses, Aveeds and pollens, are responsible for the development devel-opment of the rose cold and the hay i fever. j "Asthma may be also aggravated by i tho presence of one or another lung affectlou, or by tumors In the thorax J pressing on Important nerves; people who have had malaria or whooping j cough or measles may become suscep- j tible. Heredity and family factors havo j boon traced in 40 per cent of asthma cases. The affliction may 'run In faml-, lies whose norvous machinery is char-, acterlstlcally unstable; thoso members j who have not asthma may instead have migraine or neuralgia, or ncuras-1 thenla or epilepsy. The educated and , the highly norvous are prone. Those who havo had syphilis in youth may have asthma later In life. Hereditary and family tendency may not manifest itself In asthma until late in life; although al-though tho children of asthmatics may have asthmatic paroxysms during attacks at-tacks of grippe and coryzn- In the gouty, asthmatic seizures' may alternate alter-nate with joint affection8." no |