Autumnal Catarrh (Hay Fever) #267895

§1. In the northern part of the United States of America there are two distinct forms of annually returning catarrh. One known as the "Rose Cold," or "June Cold," commencing during the last week in May or the first week in June, and continuing until about the first week in July. This corresponds in most of its symptoms and in the time of attack with that popularly known in England as "Hay Fever," or "Hay Asthma."<br><br>Hay Fever, as it exists in England, was first described by Dr. John Bostock, in 1819, in the tenth and fourteenth volumes of the "Medico-Chirurgical Transactions," under the name of Catarrhus Æstivus. He had collected twenty-eight cases, ten of them "less correctly ascertained," from which, and from his own personal sufferings, he drew his description of the disease. Since then, numerous treatises, more or less complete, have been published in England, France, Germany, and Switzerland.<br><br>Dr. Phœbus of Giessen has collected the cases described in these treatises, and, by means of circulars addressed to various physicians, obtained much other information.