Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — Hay Fever. [ARTICLE]

Hay Fever.

Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney” Smith was also a sneezer. In a letter written in 1835 he says: “I am suffering from my old complaint, the hay fever, as it is called. My fear is perishing by deliquescence; I melt away in nasal and lachrymal profluvia. The membrane is so irritable that light, dust, contradiction, an absurd remark, the sight of a Dissenter, anything, sets me sneezing; and, if I begin sneezing at 12, I dont leave off till 2 o’clock, and am heard distinctly in Taunton, when the wind sets that way, a distance df'six miles.” •