Abstract
It folìovs from tisis short study of Dunbar's
work and results that the opinion. of Eeard and others
that a specific would never be 1o_. id to =revert or
relieve hay fever all cases, can fortunately be now
believed to be false. The exciting cause appears from
a consideration of the foregoih to Le a similar, if not
an iridentical one, for the disease wherever it occurs,
and therefore the antitoxin which neutralises this
cause - this toxin - outside the body, so long as the
toxin remains l o a l on the mucous membranes and there-
fore accessible. Through these recent researches
science has onìee mere given to practical medicine a
valuable remedial agent; in this case for a disease
which .reviousiy w7.s one of the most disnppointin,^; in
treatment it is to be hoped that the value of antitoxin
serum treatment will be yet more widely test eat in tile.
coming hay fever period, and the results carefully recorded,
in orf_er that stat i'tics drawn from a very l' rge
nul..ser of cases may be o'tained and the ques ,lai of hay
fever's etiology and therapeutics be set upon a still
surer foundation.
