The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-01-23
THE Clay DISEASE"
Form of Parasite That PEN etratea the
Intestines and Produces Elk.
treme Inertia.

| There is no prospect of an invasion
of the lazy disease" unless the phase
known as ennui in high-class phrase
ology spreads throughout the city.
Physicians declare that the case OF
ankylostoma discovered in the Johns
| Hopkins hospital, in Baltimore, has
40 reference to the common term, so
when a man says he is suffering from
aziness he cannot attribute it to a
parasitic invasion, says the Chicago
| Record-Herald of recent date.
Naturally the English term used by
DR.. Charles w. Stiles in referring to
The case in the Baltimore hospital
would convey to one the idea that
lazy disease" has some reference to
the feeling of lassitude and inertia,
which is known to prevail among the
class scientifically designated the
genus hobo. Local physicians, how
| ever, insist this is not true, and say
the tramp should not be given an ex
cuse for his desire to avoid manua.
| .xertion.
When asked if they thought the in
dividual who pleaded before Maxwell
street justice recently that he had no
worked for 12years was suffering from
| ankylostoma or "lazy disease" each
medical expert said: NO; that was
| laZiness of different type"
1.-The tramp is lazy because he likes
it," said DIR. John B. Murphy, land not
| from any physical ailment. The case
referred to in dispatches concerning
man in the Johns Hopkins hospital
has reference to rare disease.
Ankylostoma, or the term lazy dis
ease, has no connection with the COM
mon or accepted term. 1t is parasitic
| invasion of the duodenum."
Record of only one case being treat
ed in the city was discovered. A few
county hospital suffering from ankyl-
ostoma. DR.. Joseph A. Caps treated
the man, who was afflicted practically
with the symptoms described in the
Baltimore sufferer. Parasites known
under the medical term of uncinaria
duodenalls had penetrated the mucous
membrane of the intestines, causing
a serious loss of blood. They likewise
produced lassitude and inertia, leav-
ing the sufferer without any desire for
physical exercise. DR.. Caps wrote a
history of the case at the time, and it
was reported in the medical journals
as unique and rare disease.
"The statement concerning the con-
dition of the patient in the Johns Hop
kins hospital is scientifically correct"
said DR.. David r. Brewer. "The dis
ease called ankylostoma is rare
thing, and to the best of my recollec-
ton has only been discovered. once OF
twice in this country. The relation of
that parasite is comparatively of re-
cent discovery. Typhoid fever has
many of the same symptoms, but such
situation as that existing in the case
of the man in Baltimore is practical.
ly new"
DR.. Bertram W. Sippy said he had
personal knowledge of but one case
of "lazy disease" that being the one
told of by DR.. Caps. Ceases of this
kind of disease always come from the
SOUTH said DR.. Sippy, land there they
usually are found in the mountains.
They are not numerous. 1 recall a
sketch of the disease in onpection
with the ST. Gothard tunnel. Tunnel
workers are more likely to suffer
from it than any other class, and in the
work there several instances are said
to have been found in which the work
men had been attacked by these para
Sites"
DR.. Arthur Dean Bevan and DR.. Hen.
~ T. Byford said they had not met
with any case of ankylostoma in their
practice, although both had heard OF
the case treated by DR.. Caps.