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How Doctor Made Tests to Find Hay Fever Cause
In 1870 Dr. Merrill Wyman in Cambridge tested ragweed as the hay fever cause. He and his son sniffed ragweed in White Mountains proving reactions and a control, then repeated at a hotel with eight hay fever subjects, eight fell ill while non sniffers remained well. Wyman’s work led to Autumnal Catarrh, published 1872.
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Logan Clendening
Cambridge
Mass
Merrill Wyman
Harvard Medical School
White Mountains
Boston
Jeffries Wyman
Wyman