Hay fever : its causes, treatment, and effective prevention. Experimental researches / by Chas. Harrison Blackley.

  • Blackley, Charles Harrison, 1820-1900.
Date:
1880
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    name it has since been more or less known among medical men; but from the circumstance of its having been noticed that it commonly came on during the hay season, it has obtained among the laity the name of hay-fever or hay- asthma ; and I am inclined to believe that these names will be found to be the most appropriate of any yet used. § 7. The literature of the disease was, up to a compara- tively recent period, very scanty. Bostock’s first paper was published, as stated above, in 1819, and between this and his second communication in 1828 there was an interval of nine years, in which no other notice of the disease appeared in a printed form. § 8. In 1828 Dr. Macculloch* mentioned the disease, and, in speaking of its causes, says, ‘ it is produced by hot-houses or greenhouses, and in the public estimation it is particularly caused by hayfields.’ In 1829 Mr. W. Gordon published his ^ Observations on the Nature, Cause, and Treatment of Hay- Asthma.’*!' In 1830 Mr. Augustus Prmter published a short notice of a case he had seen in Paris some years before. In 1831 Dr. Elliotson noticed the disease in his lectures, and again in 1833 he gave a more lengthened account of the malady. § 9. From this latter period there was again an interval of ten years during which there was not anything of a special character published on hay-fever, but since the time just mentioned the subject has gradually excited increased interest amongst the laity and also amongst the members of the medical profession; and it would seem that there are now a greater number of cases to be met with than there were formerly. Perhaps this may, in part, be due to the increased attention, directed to this disease, having had the effect of bringing the cases much more distinctly under the notice of medical men than they have been brought at any previous period ; but it may also be, in part, accounted for * An Essay on the Remittent and Intermittent Diseases^ by Dr. John Macculloch, London, 1828, vol. i. pp. 394—397. t ‘Observations on the Nature, Cause and Treatment of Hay- Asthma,’ by Win. Gordon, M.K.C.S. Edin. London Medical Gazette, 1829, vol. iv. pp. 266—269.