THE TREATMENT OF HAY FEVER

By Rosin-weed, Ichthyol And FaradicElectricity, With A Discussion Of The OldTheory Of Gout And The NewTheory Of Anaphylaxis

BY

GEORGE FREDERICK LAIDLAW, M.D.

Consulting Physician to Yonkers Homœopathic Hospital;to St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic; and to the AnnMary Memorial Hospital, Spring Lake, NewJersey; Consulting Physician to CumberlandStreet Hospital, Brooklyn,Department of Public Charities

Formerly Professor of Practice of Medicine in the New YorkHomœopathic Medical College; formerly Visiting Physicianto Flower Hospital; to Hahnemann Hospitaland to the Metropolitan Hospital,Blackwells Island, Department ofPublic Charities, New York

BOERICKE & RUNYON
NEW YORK
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
BOERICKE & RUNYON

PREFACE

The essentials of this book, rosin-weed, ichthyol, and faradism, wereannounced at the Baltimore meeting of the American Institute ofHomœopathy, in June, 1916, and published simultaneously in the NewEngland Medical Gazette and in the Journal of the American Instituteof Homœopathy in December, 1916. They were presented also at the NewYork City branch of the United States Hay Fever Association in July,1916; at the annual meeting of the same Association at Bethlehem, NewHampshire, in August, 1916; and rather widely printed in the publicpress of New York and Boston in the summer of 1916.

As a suggestion to those who may wish to follow the subject of hay feverin its recent interesting developments, chapters have been added on theold conception of gout, the new theory of anaphylaxis and treatment bydiet, by pollen extracts and by bacterial vaccines.

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