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G. O. M.

JAMA. 1884;III(7):194-195.

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London, July, 1884.

Dr. Morell Mackenzie, of throat celebrity, has published a pamphlet on the subject of hay fever. The information is exhaustive. Hay fever, it seems, like influenza and cholera, did not occur in Europe in ancient times. Bostock, in 1819, first described it; Elliotson did so in 1831, and after him Phoebus, of Giessen. Helmholtz gave his views in 1869, and he was followed by many others. Dr. Morell Mackenzie considers the pollen of certain grasses to be the exciting cause. Dr. Mackenzie differs from the great Helmholtz in the importance which he assigns to quinine. He recommends with the utmost confidence, valerinate of zinc in combination with assafetida in pills of one grain of valerinate of zinc and two grains of compound assafcetida pill, doubling the dose at the end of ten days or a fortnight. He also alludes to tincture of benzoin in hay asthma, and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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