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Treatment of Hay Fever

The best treatment for hay fever is change of air, to the sea-side if possible. During the attacks, antispasmodics, such as sal-volatile, ether, or an emetic, if the patient is able to bear it, inhalations of hot steam medicated the head; it occurs both in winter and sum- with creosote, carbolic acid, or turpentine, mer; and it is generally said that a summer will be found useful. When the attack cold is more difficult to get rid of than a win- passes off the general health should be imter one. The attack sets in with pains in the proved by tonics, diet, &c. limbs and back, lassitude, and a sense of 5593. Asthma. This disease is well tightness across the forehead, repeated sneez-known. It manifests itself in temporary fits ing, watery and inflamed eyes, and increased of difficult breathing, is accompanied with discharge from the nose; sometimes there is wheezing, cough, a sense of suffocation, and inflammation of the throat and tonsils, and constriction of the chest. The causes are, an eruption of vesicles about the lips. 5587. Τo Cure Catarrh. Remedies without number have been recommended for catarrh, but few are better than the old-fashioned plan-putting the feet into hot water, giving 10 grains of Dover's powder (see No. 5176) a hot drink, and plenty of blankets, hereditary predisposition; cold and moist atmosphere; sudden changes of temperature; intense study; suppression of long accustomed evacuations; certain fevers; irritation of the air cells of the lungs; irritation of the stomach, &c. When this disease is attended with expectoration, it is called humoral asthma; and when there is no discharge it