History.
—Mr. F. R., aged 30, consulted me, Sept. 23, 1924, for the relief of perennial hay-fever, with which he had been troubled during the preceding nine months. The symptoms started in January, 1924, with a running nose, pronounced irritation of the eyes and nose, and a feeling of fulness in the head. These symptoms became progressively worse until the patient had an almost constant, clear watery discharge from both nostrils. He felt much better while outdoors. He was treated by his family physician, and also by a competent nose and throat specialist, without relief. He then went to New York and took some sort of light treatments, which he felt helped him a great deal, but only temporarily. The only real relief that he had experienced since the disorder started was during the month of July, which he spent in Atlantic City, where he was entirely free from the disease. He had never