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...malady afflicting these people is allergic rhinitis, more commonly called hay fever. It has nothing to do with hay and rarely produces a fever, but the Medical Gazette used that term in 1829, and the name stuck. The years since have produced no vaccine, no guaranteed cure and ever rising numbers of sufferers. In the U.S. alone, the sneezing, wheezing, teary-eyed multitudes are now estimated at 22 million...
Despite energetic research into the nature and mechanics of the allergic immune response, and some improvement in treatment, no easy, surefire cure is in sight. Without question, says Washington University's Wedner, "the very best way of curing an allergy is to take away the allergen. No one is allergic to something that isn't there." In a few cases, that prescription is simple. Sufferers can get rid of the cat, for example, or avoid obviously allergenic foods and switch to nonlatex (but more expensive) gloves...
...library, many say, would be a bandaid rather than a cure--and an inadequate bandaid, at that. Indeed, when Pusey Library was built in the early 1970s, it was filled nearly immediately, and had to incorporate unpopular storage techniques like movable stacks...
...expect that he'll have the same reaction to my argument here. I am saying, after all, that tutors are dead weight, that the undergraduates are paying out of their ears for a system that doesn't work and that action should be taken to cure this...
MEDICINE: Reach Out and Cure Somebody...