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To the Editor:— The report on the ionization treatment of hay fever, by Ramirez (The Journal, January 25, p. 281) should be followed by reports from rhinologists who have had experience with this treatment. The ionization of the nasal mucosa is applied for two conditions—hay fever and hyperesthetic rhinitis. There is now sufficient evidence that in many cases this treatment has merit. Hollender of Chicago has used zinc ionization for perennial catarrh for some years with successful results. His experience has been corroborated by Hurd and myself in New York. At a recent meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine, a report from the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital was most encouraging. During the 1934 hay fever season I had encouraging results in the treatment of hay fever by ionization. In a summary of the results in forty private cases before the Pan American Medical Association, I concluded
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