Some 6,000,000 U.S. hay-fever victims would have smiled through their tears last week if they had known about a new last-minute treatment that, if it lives up to its promise, will provide quick relief. In the New York State Journal of Medicine, Dr. Ernest J. Elsbach of Manhattan told of his experiments with a germ-brewed soothing substance at the Vanderbilt Clinic.
Standard hay-fever treatment is complicated, long-drawn-out, expensive andin almost half the casesno good. First a patient must be given a score of scratch tests on his arm to find out what pollens or...
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