The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-02
PELLAGRA CARRIED BY
 HOOKwoRM AND CINTEX
Opinion of Doctors in Badly Infected
 Region of Kentucky.

Pineville, Ky, Sept. 2-At the sec-i ond pellagra conference and fourth annual school for health officers pr. Heendren of Cary said he has seen more than 400 eases of pelIagra and in all of them he has demonstrated hookworms When these were re- moved. he said. the patient improves and gets we'll in many instances. He is positive peIlagra is infectious, is caused by a living organism which strongly suspects the bedbug and the hookworn1, being suspicious that the latter carries the infection as the mosquito carries malaria.
 During the worst stages of the dis ease, he said, the eggs of the hook worm could not be found, but treat ment relieved the patient of these worms in all cases After a patient has become better without being re- Heved of these worms the eggs may again be found.
 Other physicians with large exper- fence confirmed pr. Hendren's opin- ion.
 Roll call by counties revealed to- tai of more than 1,500 eases in east. ern and southeastern Kentucky, many more cases being now reported than at the 1911 conference. This was due to the rapid spread of the disease and to the greater ability of physi- clans to recognize eases than former 1y
 Sixty-tfree victims of the disease had walked end been hauled over miles of mountain roads to receive the | advice and ninistrations of the visit ing experts and to offer thepse1ves for study by the health officers of the protected. This was said to be the l largest collection of peIlagrans ever assembled before any scientific body l in the United States.
 l One patient was so i'll that she had to be brought on a cot. Weak, pale and eInaciated, they presented truly Q
 pitifu1 picture as they presented truly
 pitiful picture as they were assem-
 bled before the body of physicians to whom they were a,nxiously looking for relief.
 | Dr. Gininni of Straight Creek pre-
 sented twelve cases and detailed the l symptoms, history and treatment. He and others who followed him were piled with questions which showed l how acute the problem had become in
 the minds of the health officers. An l interesting event of the clinic, which l was presided over by Dr. W. IL. Heizer, lSeate Registrar of Vital Statistics, was l "a detailed report of the disease by Dr..
 Martin of Harlan, who was victim of the disease and who was able to speak scientifically of the feelings of | a victim. pr. Martins case was dis
 covered early and his recovery has I been rapid.
 1 The characteristic sign of the dis ease is a breaking out resembling a Esunburn upon the back of the hands l and forearns. around the neck ap-
 bearing as a dark brown color, around the ankles. sometimes upon the
 should CTS and face. Marked mental and digestive disturbances are char lacteristics Of the disease Many phy- sioians. through familiarity with f scores and even hundreds ofs caSas Iare able to name the disease in it's earlier stages, and these early signs 1 were eagerly sought by the physicians | present, as it is in this stage the dis l ease is most easily cured.
 I Mrs Rosemary McReynoIds will l take the oath of office as associate I iIlsttce nf tl1e s1lnrezaae court on Clctn.