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HAY FEVER

CURED.

HAY FEVER

CURED.

HAY FEVER

CURED.

HAY FEVER

CURED.

HAY FEVER

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is a disease from which many people suffer during the most pleasant season of the year, and one which renders their lives miserable.

HAY FEVER makes its presence known by incessant fits of sneezing, followed by a flow of hot transparent mucus from the nostrils, accompanied by a burning sensation and watering eyes. The soothing action of the Carbolic Smoke Ball upon the membrane allays all irritation, gradually arrests the hot flow from the nostrils and eyes, and stops the sneezing and burning sensation.

The Carbolic Smoke Ball will positively cure, and is the only remedy ever discovered which has permanently cured, HAY FEVER, a disease that has hitherto baffled the skill of the most eminent physicians, who have sought in vain to cure or prevent its annual return.

TESTIMONIALS.

"For Hay Fever, a new remedy, the Carbolic Smoke Ball, invented by an American physician, is now on trial, and has up till the present time given far more satisfactory results than any other line of treatment. It acts to a certain extent homeopathically, and produces an attack of sneezing, seeming at first to aggravate all the symptoms. In a few minutes the attack passes off entirely, and the sufferer feels a decided improvement."-The Lady's Pictorial.

The Rev. Dr. BULLOCK, Editor of The Fireside, writes:"Those who are troubled with Hay Fever will do well to try the Carbolic Smoke Ball. From practical testimony we can certify that it gives great relief."

"By the use of the Carbolic Smoke Ball Hay Fever and catarrh are undoubtedly relieved. A medical friend, a contributor and subscriber to the Nursing Record, has used them with great success in his practice."-The Nursing Record.

Hay Fever. All sufferers from this most distressing complaint should write to the manager of the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company and get particulars of what has proved to be a real remedy, often when everything else has failed-viz., the Carbolic Smoke Ball.The Fishing Gazette.

"Hitherto Hay Fever has been considered incurable, but a remedy has been invented which cures it for the season and also prevents its annual return; the name of this new remedy is the Carbolic Smoke Ball."-The Court Journal.

"It is a wonderful preventive and cure of that common trouble, cold in the head, which, if used in time, it will cure in a quarter of an hour, and is very effective in the treatment of croup, whoopingcough, catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, throat-deafness, sore throat, Hay Fever, and other complaints caused by taking cold."--Baby.

"The time of year so much dreaded by sufferers from Hay Fever is at hand, and a remedy has made its appearance that will certainly afford relief in the majority of cases. This is the Carbolic Smoke Ball. It is sanitary, innocent, and efficacious, and may be used with advantage for children as well as adults."-The Lady.

"A valuable remedy, supplied by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company and prescribed now by many eminent physicians. It is a small ball which contains that valuable disinfectant so powerful in destroying germs dangerous to human life. This is put up in combination with other ingredients that enable the carbolic to penetrate in the not disagreeable form of fine vapour through the nose, throat and lungs. The value of carbolic in checking whooping.cough and asthma has long been known, but it has never been available before in a form so convenient as in the Carbolic Smoke Ball."—Illustrated London News.

Lady MOSTYN says:-" I have derived great benefit from the Carbolic Smoke Ball, and wish you all the success you deserve."

Lady FEILDEN says:-"I am always glad to recommend the Carbolic Smoke Ball, as it is most efficacious."

Lady ERSKINE writes: The Carbolic Smoke Ball has given great satisfaction. I consider it an excellent invention."

Lady CLAVERING writes:-" Please send me another Carbolic Smoke Ball. The one I had from you last summer has been invaluable. This one is for a friend."

New American Remedy.

As all the Diseases mentioned in this Circular proceed from one cause, they can be Cured by

one remedy, viz., the CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL.

TESTIMONIALS.

Miss ADA S. BALLIN, Lecturer to the National Health Society, writes:-"The Carbolic Smoke Ball gives rapid relief in asthma, and that other despair of the doctors, Hay Fever, for which no cure as hitherto been discovered."

Mrs. SEELY, of Nottingham, writes:-"Please send me two Carbolic Smoke Balls. This remedy for Hay Fever was recommended to me by a London physician,"

Miss L. LEE, of Alston, writes:-"The Smoke Ball received from you a few weeks ago has greatly relieved the Hay Fever, from which I have suffered for many years."

Miss EMILY FAITHFULL writes:-"My little Nephew benefited by it (the Carbolic Smoke Ball) greatly."

The DEAN OF TUAM writes: "I have derived decided benefit from the Carbolic Smoke Ball, and have recommended it to many friends."

JAMES DORRELL, Esq., of Worcester, writes:-"I have suffered (from Hay Fever) for three or four years. Three weeks since I took two inhalations of your Carbolic Smoke Ball. The effect was marvellous. I have scarcely sneezed since."

Gen. GEORGE V. WATSON, Junior United Service Club, writes: -"The Carbolic Smoke Ball has been of great benefit to me. I Cannot speak too highly of its merits."

Col. W. C. WESTERN, 33, Palace Gardens Terrace, W., writes: "After using the Carbolic Smoke Ball three times a-day for about two weeks, my daughter was cured of Hay Fever. She thinks it an excellent remedy for Hay Fever and colds."

Col. C. E. MACDONALD, 65, Warwick Road, Earl's Court, S.W., writes:-"My daughter received much benefit from the Carbolic Smoke Ball, when suffering from a severe attack of Hay Fever and asthma, other remedies having failed."

Major ROWLAND WEBSTER, Sutherland Avenue, W., writes: "The Carbolic Smoke Ball gave me entire satisfaction last summer. I unintentionally got into a field where Hay-making was going on, and I was not inconvenienced by it. I have not been able to do such a thing for the last twenty years without suffering frightfully."

Capt. R. DOUGLAS LANE, Army and Navy Club, writes;-"I assure you the Carbolic Smoke Fall has given great satisfaction; itelieved my son at once of Hay Fever."

Rev. L. J. LEE, Shrewsbury, writes:-"I have found the Carpolic Smoke Ball has given more relief than any other remedy which I have previously tried."

ARTHUR C. COCKBURN, Esq., of Brondesbury, writes:"Having suffered from Hay Fever during six weeks each summer for the last 18 years, all ordinary remedies proving useless, I have great pleasure in writing to say what complete relief I obtained this year by using your Carbolic Smoke Ball."

FREDERICK MEAD, Esq., Lyric Club, writes:-"I had suffered severely with Hay Fever for several years during the summer months, and was disturbed almost nightly with Hay Asthma, but found immediate relief from the first trial of the Carbolic Smoke Ball last year, and from that time have never had a single night's rest interfered with by the Hay Asthma."

"I

G. H. GILL, Esq., Commercial Road, Pimlico, writes:suffer regularly every June from Hay Fever, and I never found any remedy to give me the slightest relief until I tried the Carbolic

Smoke Ball."

M. J. BELL, Esq., Junior United Service Club, writes:-"I bave suffered from Hay Fever for the last ten years until last year, when I used the Carbolic Smoke Ball with very beneficial results.'

Asthma -CHARLES MOORE, Esq., of Westgate-on-Sea, writes: -"It has afforded immense relief to my wife, who has suffered severely from Bronchial Asthma. When I bought the Ball she was unusually bad. It acted like magic."

Bronchitis.-Gen. E. T. FASKEN writes:- " "It has proved most beneficial to two members of my family."

Catarrh.- Dr. J. RUSSELL HARRIS, M.D., writes :-"I have prescribed and recommended the Carbolic Smoke Ball. Many chstinate cases of dry post-nasal catarrh, which have resisted other treatment, have yielded to your remedy."

Throat Deafness.-J. HARGREAVES, Esq., of Manchester, writes: "I can hear my watch tick 3 or 4 inches away, which I Fave not done for months."

HAY FEVER
Cured in every case.

COLD

IN THE HEAD

Cured in 12 hours.

COLD

ON THE CHEST

Cured in 12 hours.

CATARRH

Cured in 3 months.

ASTHMA

Relieved in 10 minutes.

BRONCHITIS

Cured in every case.

HOARSENESS

Cured in 12 hours.

LOSS OF VOICE
Fully restored.

THROAT
DEAFNESS

Cured in 1 to 4 months.

SORE THROAT

Cured in 12 hours.

INFLUENZA
Cured in 24 hours.

CROUP

Relieved in 5 minutes.

WHOOPING
COUGH

Relieved 1st application.

NEURALGIA

Cured in 10 minutes.

HEADACHE

Cured in 10 minutes.

For Inhalation only.

As all the Diseases mentioned in this Circular proceed from one cause, they can be Cured by one remedy,

viz., the CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL.

THE

Carbolic Smoke Ball

Will not only Cure HAY FEVER but will also Cure the

most Severe Forms of the following ailments :

Caution.

THE CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL CO.

V.

THE ELECTROBOLE CO.

In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, on Jan 29, 1891, Mr. Justice SMITH granted an injunction to the Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. restraining J. Foor and the Electrobole Co. trom selling an appliance called an "Electrobole," which was shown to be an infringement of the patented rights of the Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.; and the said J. Foor and the Electrobole Co. were further restrained from issuing circulars or advertisements so printed and coloured and got up as to deceive the public into the belief that the appliances called "Electroboles" were the Carbolic Smoke Balls of the plaintiffs.

Sunilla.

The cure of any of the diseases mentioned in this Circular,
when chronic, may be hastened by the use of SUNILLA. The
Carbolic Smoke Ball stops the trouble by attacking the local
cause in the head, throat and lungs, allaying the inflammation,
checking the flow of diseased matter to the stomach, and re-
storing the mucous membrane to its normal condition. SUNILLA
removes the accumulation of poisonous secretions from the
stomach, and by means of its antiseptic properties destroys the
disease germs in the entire system, leaving the patient completely
cured. SUNILLA is a tonic, composed of finely-ground vegetable
roots, and contains no mineral substance. In cases of Indigestion,
Dyspepsia, Constipation, Torpid Liver and Jaundice it will be
found to be of the greatest efficacy, while as a blood purifier it
is unequalled. SUNILLA may be obtained in two forms, viz. :-
As a powder, in packets, for mixing in port, sherry, ginger or
orange wine, price 2s. 6d., post free.

As a liquid, in bottles, ready for use, price 2s. 9d. and
4s. 6d., post free to any part of the United Kingdom.

The CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL will not only cure all diseases caused by taking cold, but will, if used in time, positively ward off colds.

One CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL will last a family several months, making it the cheapest remedy in the world at the price -10s., post free.

The CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL can be refilled, when empty, at a cost of 5s., post free.

Address:

Carbolic Smoke Ball Company,
27, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, W.

COLD

IN THE HEAD
Cured in 12 hours.

COLD

ON THE CHEST
Cured in 12 hours.

CATARRH

Cured in 3 months,

ASTHMA Relieved in 10 minutes.

BRONCHITIS
Cured in every case.

HOARSENESS
Cured in 12 hours.

LOSS OF VOICE
Fully restored.

THROAT
DEAFNESS
Cured in 1 to 4
months.

SORE THROAT
Cured in 12 hours.

INFLUENZA Cured in 24 hours.

SNORING

Cured by inhaling at bedtime.

CROUP
Relieved in 5 minutes

WHOOPING
COUGH

Relieved the first
application.

NEURALGIA Cured in 10 minutes.

HEADACHE

Cured in 10 minutes.

Telegraphic Address—“ INHALATION, LONDON.”

Briefly let me refer to the land shells so abundant in our lane, and woods, and fields hard by. Not far has one to seek to find a plenitude of helices. Helix aspersa, H. nemoralis, H. hortensis, H. arbustorum, H. virgata, H. ericetorum, H. hispida, H. rupestris, and H. lapicida go far towards forming the nucleus of a good collection. In moist weather the smooth-barked beeches bristle with Clausilia laminata, and, if less abundant, C. rugosa (C. nigricans) is yet plentiful on the mossy banks and stones. Bulimus obscurus, too, occurs in company with C. laminata, and pupa abound under fallen logs and stones. Pupa secale, P. umbilicata, P. pygmæa and P. substriata may be collected at all times, whilst a search of damp moss and stones will soon reveal Zonites nitidulus, Z. radiatulus, Z. excavatus, Z. nitidus, Z. crystallinus, and Z. cellarius. Nor will the searcher go unrewarded if he seeks for Balea fragilis, Zua lubrica, and Azeca tridens. Slug collectors would doubtless discover many varieties. I have once turned up in our garden Testacella haliotoidea.

It would be a profitless labour to enumerate a tithe of the plants which flourish in and about our lane. So diversified with hill and dale are these rich

thorns, sycamore, mountain ash, horse chestnut, ash, elm, holly, box, birch, beech and crab. Do not the orchards, too, spread out their treasures to catch the genial sun-rays? I know no greater delight than, when the pink-tipped apple-blossoms are fully expanded, to wander 'neath their flowery shade, and, meanwhile, drink in with ecstasy the sweet concert of woodland music poured from a hundred tiny throats; at such moments one feels that every sense is steeped in innocent delight, and sadly out of harmony with nature must be his soul who cannot find refreshment in communion with her in these her happiest moods.

The transition from the overshadowing beech to the humble moss, that garnishes its gnarled roots with beauty, may seem a somewhat sudden one; far less, however, than might at first appear, for are they not friends, from earliest life associate and interdependent? 'Twere needless to tell how lavishly these humble members of the vegetable kingdom have been spread o'er earth, and twig, and stone, and the muscologist will in our lane and woods find an Eldorado. Nor will the fungologist fare less pleasantly, for a profusion of curious forms spring up on every side. Very brilliantly coloured specimens, too, are some.

Fig. 89.-Helix virgata.

woodlands, that, 'twere remarkable indeed if a wonderful variety could not be found. Not botanist enough am I to say if many great rarities may be discovered, but may yet venture to predict that the diligent collector cannot fail to add many an unfamiliar one to his store. The meadow saffron flourishes in our orchard, the lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor) carpets the ground over large areas beneath the trees in the beech wood at the top of our lane, where, also, I have found in abundance the bee orchis (Orphrys apifera), the butterfly orchis (Habenaria bifolia), and a host of others. The moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia), is fairly plentiful in some places, and if, bearing away from our lane, we descend to the lowest parts of the beech and larch woods, we shall quickly find the spurge laurel (Daphne laureola). A wealth of smaller plants clothe our banks with beauty.

The mistletoe (Viscum album) is very abundant, and is to be found growing upon apple-trees in many an old orchard hereabout. Nor is our floral display confined to the plants beneath our feet, for from the time the hazel hangs out its tasselled catkins, and the yew expands its flowers, until the late lime (Tilia Europaa) perfumes the air with its delicious odour, we have a succession of bloom. Haw- and black

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One has a bright scarlet pileus, studded with small golden knobs; this I take to be the Amanita muscaria of the fungologist. Many another bright-coloured "toadstool" of graceful form have I come across in my autumnal rambles through the woods; though evanescent their beauty, they yet afford the naturalist much more than a moment's joy, nor run in vain is their short-lived course.

Not yet exhausted are the attractions of our lanenevertheless, no longer are things animate my pleasant theme. Things inert-the veriest shadows of things that were, but are no longer-these must be the subject of my closing remarks-the remains of creatures that once enjoyed their short day of lifethen perished to make room for others, and leave behind a record of times remote, when man-earth's youngest born-was a creature in the far, far distant future.

Could some marvellously facile pen unfold the story of their life, 'twould be a wondrous one indeed, but we must be content to read it in the vestiges which crowd the rocks beneath our feet. Our lane and all the surrounding district is situated upon the formation known as the Upper Oolite, one rich in fossil remains, which may generally be readily extracted from the matrix. Sea urchins and pentacrinites, and univalve

and bivalve shells innumerable, may be collected by the geologist, both in the quarries and road mender's stone heaps, trigonias and grypheas being exceedingly common; rhynchonellas and terebratulas occur abundantly in our garden; and when, after a heavy summer downpour, the converging water-courses pour their united streams adown our lane, it is converted into a very mountain-torrent, which sweeps all before it, leaving the rock clean swept. From this we may pick many small specimens. The collector will, however, doubtless prefer to gather his finds in the numerous quarries existing in the neighbourhood, nor need he diverge many steps from our lane to obtain the objects of his quest.

Very imperfectly hath my pleasant task been performed. I would that some more facile pen than mine had writ the story. But briefly though it hath been told, 'tis yet enough to show that within the circumscribed limits of our lane is stored materials of abiding interest, and that to record the life-history of its denizens would fully engage each busy moment of a life, e'en though its span should far exceed the allotted threescore years and ten.

Alas! the besom of so-called improvement hath ruthlessly swept away many a sweet refuge from the toils and tumult of the restless world; the joy of many a humble worshipper at Nature's shrine hath long since been translated into a pleasant memory.

Though threatened, many yet survive-long may they be preserved—and last to disappear, and leave the world less beautiful, I trust may be "Our Lane."

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF
BRITISH DIPTERA.
By E. BRUNETTI.
[Continued from p. 105.]

17. Bombylida.

'HE typical Bombylida are large bee-like flies, with large, globular, very pubescent abdomens, long proboscis, and long, very slender legs; their flight being very swift, feeding on nectar, and inhabiting dry warm spots in the height of summer.

The larvæ live on plant roots, or are parasitic on Lepidoptera. All the half-score or thereabouts of British species are more or less uncommon. transformation of several species have been chronicled by Reaumur and Schaffer.

Proboscis long; antennæ contiguous at base.

The

First antennal joint long: Bombylius, L.
First antennal joint short: Phthiria, Mg.
Proboscis short; antennæ at base remote: Anthrax, Scop.

Anthrax paniscus, Rossi, has a somewhat oblongated black abdomen, covered with dense yellow pubescence, as is also the thorax; the wings being pale grey, the legs black, the proboscis rather short (for this family). The species basks in the sunshine; long 12 mm. A. fenestrata, Fln., comes

from the New Forest. A. morio, L., a common continental species, has been reared from larvæ in the nest of a bee (Anthophora). I have one or two specimens of Anthrax in which spurious veins are present, this apparently being no uncommon thing in this genus.

Bombylius major, L., has a globular black abdomen, densely covered (and the thorax also) with pale yellow pubescence; proboscis very long; legs long, slender, black; wings clear, with the fore border marked with brown; long 9 mm.

An allied and less common species (B. discolor, Mik.), often mistaken for B. medius, L., which is a non-British species, is rather larger, and has the wings marked with numerous small circular brown spots, and appears in spring, especially on primrose.

European and exotic species of this family are very numerous, and assume large proportions and brilliant colouring.

No less than twenty-seven species, additional to the eight he admits as British, have been introduced as indigenous, according to Mr. Verrall.

B. major, L., Wlk. i. Pl. ii. 14. A. paniscus, Rossi, Mg., Sys. Bes. iii. Pl. xvii. 19 (cingulata).

18. Therevida.

Carnivorous Diptera, frequenting sandy spots; the sexes differing in the colour of the pubescence. Flight swift; larva living in the earth. Abdomen elongated; venation well marked; legs rather delicate and easily broken off. Allied to the Asilide and Bombylida, with which latter family Walker erroneously included them.

The six authenticated British species are more or less rare, T. fulva, Mg., being perhaps the most common. It is a black fly, with yellow bands across the abdomen, which is clothed with thin yellow pubescence, the dorsum of the thorax being bluishgrey, with two central longitudinal yellow stripes; wings greyish, tinged with yellow; legs smooth and tawny; long 9 mm.

T. nobilitata, F., is also not rare.

T. annulata, F., is easily known by its white pubescence-present in both sexes. Meigen records the larva of this species as living in rotten wood.

The genus Thereva is now usually split up into three, distinguished as follows:

Under-side of face naked: Psilocephala, Zett.
Under-side of face hairy.

Fourth posterior cell open: Dialineura, Rond.
Fourth posterior cell closed: Thereva, Latr.

19. Scenopinida.

Three species of this small, natural group (only one genus being European), are British: the venation is peculiar, somewhat resembling that of the acalypterate Muscida; sluggish flies.

Scenopinus fenestralis, L., is not rare, occurring in houses, hotbeds, greenhouses, and on willows, the

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