Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1931, Page 7

SINDFLY HELD HAY FEVER CALSE Newest Discovery in Disease Is Described at Medi- cal Session. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 10.—Hay fever caused by a sand fly is one of the newest _discovered ilis at the American Medical Association annual meeting. It is part of a demonstration of scientific use of pollen to prevent hay fever, a method which used “the hair of the dog to treat the bite.” The hay fever sand fiy was found about Buffalo by Dr. Salvador Parlato of that city. It is a brown insect, smaller than a house fly and quite slender. It causes hay fever by fan- ning little mossy-looking scales. from its wings to float in the air like the pollens, which are the main offenders. It is a rare cause, and a novelty to many visiting physicians. Causes of Fever Shown. The grasses causing hay fever at this time of year stand in vases for inspec- tion. They are English plantin, Winter | grass, sweet vernal, June grass, Ire- | land grass and timothy hay. is also a jax of yellow and white field daisies, ranked as.a rare but sometimes real offender. Alongside the vases stand jars of amber-colored liquid which is extracted from the pollens and used to prevent the malady. The treatment is not classed as cure, but as a preventive, notwithstanding an occasional record of apparent permanent cure. When a hay fever victim calls at one of these clinics in New York City and says, “Last Monday I sneezed my head off,” the scientists turn to slides upon which were trappcd the pollens preva- lent in the air on that “Monday.” Tests Indicate Guilty Pollen. ‘When these pollens are identified, a very weak extract of each one is in- jected hypodermically under the pa- tient's skin until one causes a swelling like an overgrown mosquito bite. That partly indicates the guilty pollen. Next a drop of the extract in the eye clinches | the detective work, provided it causes redness. All the pollens are tried, be- cause sometimes as many as half a dozen may be the irritants. Some per- sons are sensitive to only one. The treatment injects into the pa- tient’s skin the largest amount of the pollen extract which will stop just short of producing hay fever. Once a month for the rest of the Summer this dose is repeated, and frequently saves further Ray fever. Most persons require repe- tition of the treatment each Summer. ‘The exhibits list three classes of of- fenders—tree pollens, grasses and rag- weed. Protection against tree hay fever is furnished by a composite extract of all their pollens. The two worst offend- ers are timothy hay in Spring and rag- weed beginning in’ August and extend- ing through the Fall. They are rated as about equally bad. Chemical analysis has not fully iden- tified the nature of the substance in pollen causing hay fever. It is obtained by washing the “fat” off the pollen in ether and dissolving the remaining ma- terial in water. SEA SCOUTS OF CAPITAL PLAN SUMMER CRUISES Short Trips and Two-Week Out- ings on Bay Are An- nounced. A series of cruises this Summer cn the 79-foot yawl S. S. Argo has been | | planned for local members of the Sea Scout branch of the Boy Scouts of America, according to an announce- ment made by Capt. Chester Wells, chairman of the District c¢f Columbia Council. ‘The schedule of nautical activities for the Washington youths will include a short trip almost every week, in ad- dition to three two-week cruises which will get under way on June 22, August 1 and September 2. The itinerary covers points along the Potomac an: Chesapeake Bay. o ¥ Twenty Scouts and leaders can be || comfortably accommodated by the There | 2 |found in many instances evidence of THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, GIRLHOOD TABOOS AND TRAINING DESTROY MARITAL HAPPINESS New York Physician Reveals Findings of Survey on Subject Before American Medical Association. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 10.—An analysis of happiness in the married life of 1,000 cultured American women, based on data obtained from personal | physicians, was presented at the Ameri- can Medical Association meeting today. It showed that girlhood experiences, taboos and training often thwart or destroy capacity for marital happiness, and that about half of the 770 “typical wives” in this group are unhappily mated. The report wds made by Dr. Robert L. Dickinson, M. D., of New York City. “These 1,000,” he sald, “were what may be called the cultural American type. Thcy were urban, of good family background and education. Married to professional men of moderate income, each with one or two children, they e considered socially normal in the ordinary relationships of work and life. Th°y had an average of 161 children per 100 women. The typical woman | had her first child at the ag2 of about | 2. When the widows, he divorced and the recently wed were 770 remaincd as 375 Are Dissatisfied. | Answers to questions about happiness | were distributed about fifty-fifty. Three | hundred_and_sixty-five made no com- plaints, 30 sometimes answered yes and | sometimes no, 375 said definitely that they were dissatisfied. As causes of unhappiness Dr. Dickin- son found that complaints about rela- tives, money, work, management of children and the home were usually econdary. Among the dissatisfied he “some shock in childhood related to the | sex side of life.” ‘The effect of extensive educn(—iunn]i and religicus training,” he said, “is to | intensify the cultural taboos of fear dance of sex expressi typical | - He found 250 seeking compensations that included the arts, religion, morals, culture, social pursuits, political causes, overassumption cf family responsibil- ity, worry over financial extravagance. Dr. Dickinson said he considers that he has dependable evidence that every woman has the capacity for married happiness. but that this capacity may eventuate either as serene and creative or thwarted and destructive. All is extraordinarily depondent upon her early life. Proof of existence of an invisible agent which in fowls causes léukemia, a disease of blood = resembling cancer, was demonstrated today. ‘This agent passes through filters designed to retain visible bacteria and it cannot be seen with a micro: scope. 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