Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1632/Miscellany

Hay Fever. — In a letter to his son-in-law, Dr. Holland, the renowned humourist, Sidney Smith, says: — "I am suffering from my old complaint, hay fever; the membrane of my nose is in such a state of irritation, that light dust, contradiction, an absurd remark, the sight of a Dissenter, anything sets me sneezing, and when I begin to sneeze at twelve, I don't leave off till two, and may be heard at Baunton, when the wind sets that way — a distance of six miles. Turn your attention to this little curse. If consumption is too powerful for physicians, at least they should not let themselves be baffled by such a little upstart as hay fever."