The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Dr. Mayer A. Green writes to the Commander General of the First Air Force to update him on Bernard Mars medical condition and treatment. Dr. Green writes that Mars suffers from grass and ragweed hay fever, rhinosinusitis, chronic headaches, an allergy to aspirin an an allergy to milk all of which he has received treatment for. Allergen tests have revealed an allergy to pork, lobster, mold, dust, plantain, kapok, tobacco mixture, trees, chocolate, sweet potato, tomato, blackberry, and strawberry.