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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    diet and alkalies according to the uric acid theory and reports excellent results. It may be pointed out that the successful results of the treatment by no means prove that the condition was due to uric acid; for the diet may be doing many other things besides controlling the movements of the uric acid and it is probable that the effect of an alkali in the blood is not a simple neutralizing of an acid but that it sets in motion a train of chemical changes of great complexity. None the less, Dr. Dunn’s paper is well worth reading by every physi- clan for its practical suggestions in the treat- ment of hay fever. The cardinal error made by the advo- cates of the uric acid poisoning is that they name the poison. If the theory were stated that an unknown poison or poisons circu- late in the blood and cause many symptoms of disease, as headache, gouty pains, bilious vomiting, and so on, we would all agree that this is so. Call it the X-poison, if you will, as Roentgen did with his unknown ray. But when you name the poison uric acid, you challenge the chemist and the physi- ologist to test your doctrine by chemical