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hay-fever
[f. hay n.1]
A disorder of the early summer, characterized by a catarrhal condition of the ocular, nasal, and respiratory mucous membranes, accompanied generally by asthmatic symptoms; usually caused by the pollen of grasses and some flowers, sometimes also by the dust of other substances or the odorous emanations of some fruits and animals.
First described under the name of summer catarrh by Bostock in Trans. Medico-Chirurg. Soc. 1819, X. 161, and 1828, XIV. 437. Gordon in 1829 used the names hay-asthma, hay-fever.
1829Gordon in Med. Gaz. IV. 266. 1835 Syd. Smith Lett. No. 354, I am suffering from my old complaint hay⁓fever (as it is called). 1840Tweedie's Syst. Pract. Med. III. 84 The Summer Catarrh, hay-fever, or hay-asthma as it is termed from its supposed connexion with the effluvium of new hay. 1851H. Martineau Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. ix. 379 The King enjoyed an exemption from his annual attack of hay-fever. |