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Show I . . C . i : " : : ni i Did You Know, Hayfever Is Caused By Love- I ( k Love of the Ragweed for Its Mate? ! I In the Fall a ragweed's fancy . lightly turns to thoughts of love and this month, throughout most of the United States, every upstanding up-standing ragweed will be on the hunt for a mate. All this seedy pursuit of happiness hap-piness is all right for ragweeds but it's tough on you if you are one of the millions who suffer hay fever as the result of inhaling in-haling pollen. In that case you 1 cannot afford to look down your nose at the activities of the young ragweed Romeos and Juliets. Many of them may not find each other, but find your nose instead, worse, they may even have a date there. In that case you ought to know about Neohetramine (2-(N-. dimethyl-aminoethyl-N-p-meth-oxybenzyl) - amino - pyrimidine mono-hydrochloride) and don't sneeze at that either. This interesting inter-esting sounding and acting drug, a product now made available by Wyeth Incorporated on a doctor's doc-tor's prescription, has been found in a number of recorded clinical tests to give relief to 82 per cent of seasonal hay fever suf- , f erers, and what is most remark able ox an, with almost complete absence of deleterious, or "side," effects. 1 These test3, as reported by Drs. Leo H. Criep and Theodore H. Aaron of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and Montefiore Hospital to the American Academy of Allergy, showed Neohetramine to be the (safest of all similar drugs. In fact the incidence of side effects , was so low that they named it jthe "safest" antihistamine. I Neohetramine, the physicians showed, has also proved star-tlingly star-tlingly effective in curing or moderating headache, bronchial asthma, the skin eruption known , as urticaria, and allergic rhinitis. fThe tests were extensive, 124 ;hay fever sufferers being treated T ,with Neohetramine by Drs. ,riep and Aaron. . The development- of -Neohetramine is the result of clever medical detection work. Allergies Aller-gies are a comparatively recent medical discovery. The word "allergy" has been in the language lan-guage only half a century. It is Inow known that the inhalation of pollens, especially that of ragweed, can produce asthma, . sneezing, face swelling and other allied symptoms. Many ioods, shellfish and strawberries for example, wool, cat fur and Ifcores of other things may cause , various unhappy reactions avong those allergic to them. When a disease germ enters - (th body, the body' automatically automatical-ly Xets up its own defense by manufacturing anti-bodies to combat the germ. Pollens and other ellergens are also met in : r - i ' ' ' v r I it pz y: 5 v-' , I 46 "4r Jl the body with anti-bodies. But the real villain of the hay fever and other similar griefs is now believed to be a chemical called histamine which is normally found in minute quantities in most of the body tissues. Pollen and the antibodies it creates combine to cause the liberation of histamine in the body. The histamine in turn dilates the blood vessels so that the tissues which the blood vessels feed become be-come swollen and gorged, like the stomach of a man who has eaten far too much. When the tissues of the mucous membrane of the nose get this indigestion and stomachache, the result is hay-fever or perhaps rhinitis. Other tissues so afflicted may result xn hives, asthma or worse. Histamine thus acts as a sort of fifth columnist in the body for allergens. But it was only recently that histamine's devious devi-ous underground work was discovered. dis-covered. Once that was established, estab-lished, however, the research laboratories got to work and developed de-veloped the so-called antihis-tamimcs. antihis-tamimcs. Of these, Neohetra-mine, Neohetra-mine, as shown in the Criep-Aaron Criep-Aaron report, is the least likely to produce in the patient such side reactions as dizziness and drowsiness. The antihistamines have been found valuable also in other respectsnotably re-spectsnotably in overcoming certain patients' .allergies to drugs which it is necessary to administer to them. During a recent operation for tumor at Temple University Hospital, penicillin injections had to be given a woman patient. To these Lsne showed pronounced and dangerous allergic "actl0"5 H which disappeared when we surgeons administered Neonetn j. The great value of antimsu minics to medicine can be apj . predated when it is rememKm what a tremendous field .is ered by allergies. Certain . sons, for example, are aUag to cold and a sudden dip to MJ cold water or too prowjg swimming may result in aeaw Others are allergic to heat . XJj list of allergens run the ganw from cat's fur to millc. f The case of a man who Jbnj ih into a rash on Monday monjJP puzzled physicians for JjfflJJJ J They tested him for one ajjtf . after another until they . bered that his rash agg curred on Mondays. Tneff answer finally came. He lergic to funny paP.e"7S to the ink used to Iyf2i ; There are also 4er?SSj!-:. ' are of Psychogenic i mjP , woman married for nvc half years had JufferedB'S , f for five years of that timft vwent to Arizona, was . , within a few months ana turned East to her hTOn , i months later she haa fl , , again. She went back to w and was again cured. Hg , , band moved to TrocnhS,10,' i her. Fivedarttater.;. pitalized'with' an acute . , , of asthma. .newo Probably Neohetramin . have done no good in w hf i Reno was the cure. ( divorce the, lady hajj . i the East and has ' currence of .her asthj 5j was simply 'rgicto band. . |