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ages, and continues — ''One caution only is necessary ; it is that 

 the patient should not be submitted to surgical manipulations 

 during an acute access of symptoms ; an interval of repose 

 should be chosen for this purpose either before or after an 

 attack." 



While disclaiming any knowledge of the disease, which would 

 enable me to intelligently indorse or controvert the statements 

 of Dr. Woakes on its nature and proper treatment — which mat- 

 ters are left to the physicians and surgeons — I nevertheless con- 

 sider his chapter on Hay Fever a remarkably clear exposition 

 of some of the characteristics and accompaniments of this dis- 

 ease, and have quoted that chapter as an introduction to wliat 

 I have seen and heard of the Hairs of the Peach. 



MISCELLANEA. 



Photomicrograph versus Microphotograph. — By A. 

 Clifford Mercer, M. D., Syracuse, N. Y. — The confusion of the 

 terms *' photomicrograph and " microphotograph " has led the 

 writer to try to discover the paternity and original meaning of 

 the more important word, photomicrograph. 



During the past eighteen months, through the kind interest of 

 Dr. R. L. Maddox, himself, and through him of the editors of 

 the British Journal of Photography the looked-for paternity has 

 been, discovered. Traced to Mr. George Shadbolt, he has ac- 

 knowledged the child, writing : " I believe I am responsible for 

 drawing attention to the necessity of a distinction between a 

 photographic picture of an enlarged object, and the minute 

 photographic picture of a large object, the former being cor- 

 rectly described as a 'photomicrograph,' and the latter as a 

 'microphotograph,' in accordance with the meaning of the origi- 

 nal Greek derivatives. This will have been in an early number 

 of the British Journal of Photography, probably while it was 

 still called ' The Liverpool Journal of Photography.' " 



The exact date of the birth of the word is still somewhat 

 doubtful, but Dr. Maddox writes : " I think we may safely put 

 it at '59 or '60, although we cannot put our finger on the page, 

 even after much research." 



