On hay asthma and the affection termed hay fever / by William Pirrie.

Date:
1867
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Credit: On hay asthma and the affection termed hay fever / by William Pirrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    influence exercised by it on the cerebro-spinal and sympathetic systems of nerves, is a quick - ener of the various functions up to a certain point, beyond which it perverts or disturbs those functions by exerting a depressing or par- tially paralysing influence on the same sets of nerves. Now one person can remain uninjured by a degree of heat which would occasion grave discomfort or positive sickness to an- other. The point of turning, if we may so say, from ministering to health, to tending to sickness, is determined very much in each instance by individual temperament, by the degree of animal heat generated, by the amount of evaporation from the surface, and by the tone of the nervous system. Men blessed with a freely acting skin and with great nervous power, can endure a degree of heat which would paralyse the energies of others. It appears to us that all the train of morbid phenomena constituting the febrile form of dis- turbance now under consideration, is indicative of nervous exhaustion and consequent irritation, and that this results from a partially paralysed