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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 5

Hay fever sufferers may find relief by swallowing a pill instead of submitting to a long eeries of injections with a hypodermic needle, according to recent researches made by Professor Erich Urbach, Austrian scientist. Under present methods, severe cases are treated with chemical preparations to "de# sensitize" a patient to the dust or pollen that causes his ailment. The chemicals have to be injected with a" needle, beginning with a small dose and gradually increasing the amount. Under Professor Urbach 's method, the offending dust or pollen is treated with a vegetable digestive substance and made up in the form of pills. Eepeated experiments have shown that if the pills are taken on an umpty stomack, and followed by a glass of slightly aeid water, tliey will be absorbed into the blood streani and have as great a desensitizing effcct as though they had been administered by conventional injoction methods thfefc causo great discomfort to some people, ,