RELIEF FOR HAY FEVER
V KEW YORIv, April. 15. The new drug pyfil-benzahiite, which/ it is claiined, ha& giVen reiief to eighty- ! five pet deiit of liay fever patients tfcated, Was descHbed at a meeting- of the Aledical Aliimni Association of the UniverSity of Bilfi'alo. Patietits tfeated wefe allected by grass polleits. Di': Utt.fl Arbesmati, while issuing a Wafning that the drug was iiot a eute for all hay fever, said there was at loast a tifty por cent. improvcment in cases treated. Patients obtained reiief as long as they Gdntirihed taking the drug but had a recurrence of symptoms when they stoppcd. The drug was safe to administer and had no toxie reaetioit but had annoying eft'ects on some patients: About thifty-tWo per cent of patients treated had headache, drowsiness, fatigue and occasional vomiting but Only live per eeiit had reUctiohs so seve'rd that they had to Stop its use.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5
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