The treatment of hay fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity, with a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis / by George Frederick Laidlaw.

  • Laidlaw, George Frederick, 1871-
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[1917], ©1917
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Credit: The treatment of hay fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity, with a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis / by George Frederick Laidlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recognized the importance of his observa- tions. At the end of Volume 4 there is a monograph on Hay Fever by Dr. George Sticker, of the University of Giessen, the most thorough and satisfactory book on the subject that I have found. It may be read in English in the American edition of Nothnagel, Philadelphia, 1902. Sticker re- sists the impulse to begin with Galen, though he notes rather wistfully that John Mackenzie of Baltimore succumbs to it. He gives the most complete statement in any modern book of the gout theory of hay fever, but, alas, Sticker misses the pearl in the oyster. He says nothing of de Mussy’s recognition of the urticarial nature of the lesion in hay fever. As this volume of Nothnagel may not be easily available to the gentle reader, I copy a paragraph from Sticker for his or her» benefit. | Nothnagel’s Specielle Pathologie und Therapie, Band 4, 1896. Article Bostock’s Catarrh, by Dr. George Sticker, page 118. “In the last few years convincing proofs are accumulating that there is a certain constitutional disorder on which the indi-