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

Date:
1880
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    The eyes are to be bathed in a small portion of the collyrium three or four times a day. § 425. Another important precaution I advise all hay- fever patients to adopt, is to wear a loosely-fitting overcoat (or cloak), of very thin material, when out in the open air, and always to have this taken off and well shaken or brushed after being out. To wear the same article of cloth- ing, indoor and outdoor, during the whole of the hay- season, is to carry a very effective means of infection about with one. If a patient, however, lives in a large town, and does not venture into the country much in the hay-season, this precaution is not so necessary unless he has to come much into contact with those who go often into the hay- grass districts. For those patients who live in the midst of the hay-making districts, the precautionary measures spoken of at § 421 will be found very necessary, and at the same time very valuable. If carefully and persistently carried out, they will often enable the patient to dispense with the necessity of leaving home for some weeks. With patients who are at other times strong and healthy, the confinement to the house which this method of prevention involves is exceedingly irksome; but I have met with some cases in which it has been a matter of the most vital im- portance that they should be able to remain at home, and almost equally so that they should escape the hay-fever as much as possible. § 426. We must now notice some of the remedies that have been found beneficial, in one way or another, under circumstances that often accompany attacks of hay-fever. For those patients who suffer from habitual constipation, or from a tendency to haemorrhoids, the use of Nux vomica (gtt. v. to gtt. x. 2nd dec. atten. ter vel quater in die), in alternation with one of the remedies I have previously spoken of as prophylactic in their action, will be found very useful; and in cases where there is much dyspepsia com- bined with the constipation, it will often give great relief. Sulphur is a drug that is useful, not only as a prophylactic, but also in cases where there are haemorrhoids and chronic