Bill pulled up a stool at his favorite bar and announced: "My wife Suzie must love me more than any woman has ever loved any man!"
"What makes you say that?" the bartender inquired.
"Last week," Bill explained, "I had to take a couple of sick days from work. Suzie was so thrilled to have me around that every time the milkman and the post office guy came by, she'd run down the driveway, waving her arms and hollering, 'My husband's home! My husband's home!'"
Hay feverIn 1819, the first clinical description of an allergy was delivered by Dr John Bostock to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society meeting in London. Bostock's paper, published in the society's Transactions, was titled “A Case of the Periodical Affectation of the Eyes and Chest.” It was, in reality, a description of his personal sufferings (During hay season, lay-persons called it hay fever.) In 1828, he gave a longer, more detailed paper, describing 28 more case, titled “OnCatarrhus Æstivus or Summer Catarrh.”For many years doctors called it “Bostock's catarrh.” Pollens of grasses, weeds and trees (also mold spores) are the main causes of this type of allergy.The nose lining swells, with a runny discharge. Also spells of sneezing and itchiness of the throat and palate also occur. The eyes may be similarly affected.«[Ref: Medico-Chirurgical Transactions (1819), 10:1, 161-165, and (1828), 12, 437-447.] |
