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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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fother following diseases hitherto considered as independent. Fromthe indefinite presumed method of transfer of bacteria from anindividual, lacking history of and later evidences of clinical com-mensurate inflammation, without correlated evidence of the milkdistribution, a definite contact spread among individuals could bedemonstrated when corrected time relations, other than of the imme-diate period, were taken into account. It is the replacement of thefirst letter y in mystery by the letter a. Scheppegrell: Harmless Flowers and Hay fever Weeds 129 OUR HARMLESS FLOWERS AND HAYFEVER WEEDS. By WILLIAM SCHEPPEGRELL, A.M., M.D., New Orleans, President American Hayfever Prevention Association; Ex-President AmericanAcademy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology; ChiefHayfever Clinic, Charity Hospital. To those who have not experienced its sufferings or observed itseffects, hayfever appears an insignificant ailment which often formsa convenient object of ridicule. The hayfever victim, however,
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Fig. 1.—Golden Rod. As its pollen is not in the air, it does not cause hayfever,except by direct application to the nostrils. The line drawings of this articleare from Britton and Browns Illustrated Flora of the United States. Thephotographs are original. knows it to be a tragedy, to which pneumonia or typhoid fever, witha prospect of a full recovery or a fatal termination, would be pref-erable. While the frequency of hayfever varies somewhat in differ- 130 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL ent localities, most cities of the United States average about 1percent of their population,1 so that it is not difficult to computethe number of cases, the total of which is over 1,000,000 in theUnited States. Hayfever is due to the inhalation of the pollen of plants, mostof which are worthless weeds which are already outlawed froman agricultural standpoint. The fact that some persons are sus-ceptible to these pollens and not others is no more remarkable than

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