The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-03

~umpia, Oct 30.-Careful inquiry
~ 0rst hand and from head-sources
- convinced your correspondent nat
nnch which gets into print regarding
- hook worms ravages, particular
- u this State. Is OF piece with an
0Ee1cie sent out from Columbia the
ScAer day. ascribing to DIR. William
Wsseon Of this city the discovery Of
- thymoi treatment for the disease.
@eetment shown by tests to be so
onposssfui that II is now the standard.
Br. Weston has been one OF the
aex~nost students OF the disease and
- medical profession is under tre-
0endcus debt to him for his records
- deductions but neither he nor
~ Of his friends ever set up for him
= eaaim to the discovery Of the cure,
~oboh ~ . matter of fact was discov-
ssea by an Italian investigator. Bozxo-
- This fact Ia 90 well known that the
sfusent 10 unusually spoken of as
Ds.oio's thymoi treatment"
- has been stated In media Of wide
unsuIation that 10 per cent. Of the
-v&1ess and % per cent. of the negroes
- rural Southern communities have
- dhssase. and the inference has been
0n1ntT provided for that In the South
0~eoliua aims houses. insane asylum
- country schools its ravages are
1nEt1cularly extensive and general.
1Dms Of these statements have been
uuribed to DIR. Weston. While the
on>sr has been correctly quoted in
0nny cases. he has been misquoted in
~oDs>and the general effect of some
- cha articles has been to convey an
Dnngsther exaggerated and erroneous
eAa Of the situation.
Gel E- J. Watson. the State COM
unusoner Of agriculture. commerce
- industries. is delighted with the
Uecksfeller foundation. which. back
- BY cool million. is to study the
Aeok worm In the South. but he thinks
- oil magnate could have put the
u11lon to better use by devoting It to
- study Of peilagra. "Peliagra," he
49,. ''is doing more harm than the
N1ekworm and its remedy Ia unknown,
-~osrsas the hookworm disease is cas-
~ controlled and Its sure remedy is
nnswn."
Dccasionally patient brought to
- state Hospital for the Insane has
- disease. but the thymol treatment
= promptly effective. though some
tsns n required In few cases to
eufsd up the system and dispell the
UDomia Indirectly the disease In its
vprst form induces insanity.
When DR.. Chas. Waddell Stiles, the
oDvernment hookworm specialist. was
hors three years ago. he diagnosed
eaoven cases at Epworth Orphanage
~nong the $50 children there. Under
~ treatment these all got well, their
uptitude In books improving as mark
eoly as their physical condition. Since
<hsn. supt. w. b. Wharton says, the
trfitution has never been without
Dedicine to treat the disease and the
sa>ending physician Is constantluy on
- lookout for Its symptoms. In con-
soQuence only a few cases have since
1eveloped and none Of these has been
gsious.
DIR. 8. b. Fishburne Of the Richland
anns house has never known of case
0ere. perhaps because the inmates
-ars all adults. Mostly the affection
confined to children. even among
tho very poor. because the children
% habitually barefoot. Adults con-
tract the disease through drinking
fmpure water. but most of the aims
house inmates come from the city
Ut Columbia, where the water is
pure.
To what extent the sand-hiil people
az this county suffer Is not known
even. by the physicians. for they rare
" call In physicians.
DIR. Weston confrms one statemen.
sscribed to him which seems extrava-
CANT. viz. That I'm some communities