Chapter I: Preface

The essentials of this book, rosin-weed, ichthyol, and faradism, were announced at the Baltimore meeting of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, in June, 1916, and published simultaneously in the _New England Medical Gazette_ and in the _Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy_ in December, 1916. They were presented also at the New York City branch of the United States Hay Fever Association in July, 1916; at the annual meeting of the same Association at Bethlehem, New Hampshire, in August, 1916; and rather widely printed in the public press of New York and Boston in the summer of 1916.

As a suggestion to those who may wish to follow the subject of hay fever in its recent interesting developments, chapters have been added on the old conception of gout, the new theory of anaphylaxis and treatment by diet, by pollen extracts and by bacterial vaccines.

CONTENTS

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I. The Diagnosis 9
II. Rosin-weed 14
III. Ichthyol and the Point in the Naso-pharynx
that Controls the Symptoms 17
IV. Menthol and Eucalyptol 20
V. The Faradic Current and Other Forms
of Electricity 27
VI. Hay Fever as Urticaria 38
VII. Dr. Gueneau de Mussy. Hay Fever as
Urticaria Again 44
VIII. Hay Fever as Gout 51
IX. The Uric Acid Theory 66
X. Hay Fever as Anaphylaxis 76
XI. Immunizing with Pollen Extracts 91
XII. The Bacterial Vaccines 108
XIII. Diet 113
XIV. Rosin-weed Again. Historical and
Pharmacological 123

THE TREATMENT OF HAY FEVER