The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-07-05
HOOK WORM IN
COLLEGE STUDENTS
Doctors Hold Symposium
at WrightsviIIe
ALL SHOULD COOPERATE

7q,e Public Should Study the Bulletin
If the State Board of Health So as
tn ReCorne Familiar With the Causes
Sxu,Dtoms Prevention and Cure of
This Disease.
At the recent Hookworm Sympo-
eium at Wrightsville two victims Of
the disease were on exhibition To
see these pitiful. thtn-blooded sub
ects. bringing with them a bottle con-
saining more tina a thousand worms
that been expelled from their bodies
by treatment and to see some Of their
excreta put under the microscope and
show that many Eggs were still pass
ing that were deposited by worms that
were yet to be expelled was enough to
arouse the interest and sympathy of
8Il who were present in the crusade
against hookworm disease.
A microscopic examination of ap-
Droximately six hundred North Caro-
lima college students showed that more
thai One-third of them were infected
I'll al ltAS NSoASNS HtSA $A> NoON~N
These. together with reports from
about four hundred North Carolina
doctors, who have treated approx
mately four thousand cases Of the dis
ease show that it is prevalent in SO
Of the SO counties Of the State
The State Board Of Health Bulle-
tin for May contains a full account
49, $3.50 ~H0->- ~
hoOkWOdm disease, and it will be sent
to any address OF request The public
at large should be thoroughly familiar
with the causes, symptoms, prevention,
and cure Of this new and important
disease. All should cooperate in the
crusade being Waged against this and
other p~reventable and durable dis
eases which blight SO many lives, anu
is such a common cause OF inhibited
development of mental and physical
capabilities.
When a discovery is made public
opinion as a court will not sanction 1t
until as a witness time has added its
confirmation. This was true with the
discovery Of antitoxine as a cure for
diphtheria- 1t also applies to the dis
covery Of the general prevalence OF
hOOkWOrm disease among our people,
the efficiency of thymol as a remedy
for its cure, and the value Of SANTA
ton in its prevention When we con-
slider that for many generations we
have spent the summers Of our youth
bare-fOoted, annually, oftentimes, con
tracing cases of ground Itch which
Is now known to be a manifestation
OF occurring hoOkworm Infection, ig-
n%0rantIy allowing our bodies to be
come riddled with blood-sucking para
sites. the revelation is so startling anC
ats significance of such far-reachine
Importance, that public opinion with
held its decision concerning the dis
coFery until it was confirmed by time
Evidence has now accumulated
from various and reliable sources tt
convince the most skeptical Of the
truthfulneSs of the claims Of those
engaged in the hookworm investiga-
uon e~ndeavOring to effect its eradfca,
Qon. To prove the mode of infection
q scientist will himself To-
The disease and find that he is no
injected. He will then make a poul
uce Of some soil taken from the prem
eSlS Of hOOkworm sufferers and ap
ply it TO some part of his body. II
d day or two q typical "ground-itch'
ENVELOPES at the place where tn
pouitce is applied. A microscopic ex
ANIMATION will reveal an immens'
number of the injecting hookworn
taTF2e boring through the skin. Afte
ABOUT tive weeks these worms VIII
gave reached the small Intestine ant
developed into the adult worms as will
ne indicated by the az that whel
TIE excreta is then examined unde
me microscope the eggs Of the adui
worms will be found present in larg
numbers, Thymol is then taken which
SApels worms from the body. Whel
t"e treatment is completed no NOR
Ss69 are found in the eKcreta. Thl
PROOF was first made by Looss, and he
since been confirmed by hundreds
a"y or our physicians in private prac
zee nave had opportunity for con
m"l'hg this work. In the State Lab
oIa'ory of Hygiene one Of the man.
apecimens examined early in the pres
~ week was SO contaminated wit
nookworm eggs that in a portion o
eHcreta about One-half the S1z
~ drop of water there were counte'
80 hundred and sixty-two hookdorn