THE TREATMENT OF HAY FEVER BY ROSIN-WEED, ICHTHYOL AND FARADIC ELECTRICITY, WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE OLD THEORY OF GOUT AND THE NEW THEORY OF ANAPHYLAXIS BY GEORGE FREDERICK LAIDLAW, M.D. Consulting Physician to Yonkers Homoeopathic Hospital; to St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic; and to the Ann Mary Memorial Hospital, Spring Lake, New Jersey; Consulting Physician to Cumberland Street Hospital, Brooklyn, Department of Public Charities Formerly Professor of Practice of Medicine in the New York Homoeopathic Medical College; formerly Visiting Physician to Flower Hospital; to Hahnemann Hospital and to the Metropolitan Hospital, Blackwells Island, Department of Public Charities, New York BOERICKE & RUNYON NEW YORK 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY BOERICKE & RUNYON PREFACE The essentials of this book, rosin-weed, ichthyol, and faradism, were announced at the Baltimore meeting of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, in June, 1916, and published simultaneously in the _New England Medical Gazette_ and in the _Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy_ in December, 1916. They were presented also at the New York City branch of the United States Hay Fever Association in July, 1916; at the annual meeting of the same Association at Bethlehem, New Hampshire, in August, 1916; and rather widely printed in the public press of New York and Boston in the summer of 1916. As a suggestion to those who may wish to follow the subject of hay fever in its recent interesting developments, chapters have been added on the old conception of gout, the new theory of anaphylaxis and treatment by diet, by pollen extracts and by bacterial vaccines. CONTENTS