Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-03-08
MUCH INTEREST
 OVER HeOkWORMS Many Come to Courthouse
 to See Demonstrations Given.
SPECIALISTS TALK.
Give Idea of What Disease Means, Symp,oms and Means to Cure-
 Will Campaign Jefferson County.

Hundreds of people visited the hookworm specialist at the Court house yesterday where the methods of making examinations were dem- onstrated with the microscope. Many different intestinal parasites were on exhibition, together with photographs of severe cases of hookworm disease, before aed after successful treatment.
 It was explained by pr. Fly that the ultimate object of the Hook worm campaign is to perfect sanitary conditions about homes and schools to a degree incompatible with the spread of disease germs and para sites; and that the immediate object is to diagnose and treat free Of cost, to the people, all existing cases of hookworm disease.
 The consummation of both the prl- mary and ultimate object can be al- tained only through thorough pro- cess of education, such as is now being conducted in Jefferson county.
 Every visitor at the Courthouse was shown the living wriggling larvae of the hookworm as it appears under the microscope. The larvae is the body hookworni, too small to be seen by the naked eye. After the lava has reached tn inside of the intes- tine it takes hold of the lining of this organ and sucks blood as long as it lives, which time varies from to 12 years.
 The larva at 16 weeks of age in the human intestine has grown to it's full size about 1-2 to 3-4 inch long and the size of No. 8. sewing thread, and readily seen with the natural eyesight.
 The. worms produce various symptoms, some of which are nausea sick headache, palpitation Of theI heart, shortage of breath. easily tired out feeling in feet and legs, paleness, puffiness under eyes, dry hair, glassy eyes, poor memory. sharp shoulder blades, thin arms and legs, stunted growth in children, diarrhea alternat- ing with constipation. large or pro- truding abdomen, capricious appetite dirteatlng Gin extreme cases) and finally heart failure and death.
 When the worms are first taken into the body with water, or up-l cooked foods or by the skin route, they do not produce alarming symp- toms or acute symptoms, consequent ly over half of the, cases found arel mild cases not really suffering enough to complain.
 Finding these mild cases is Of the! highest Importance for two reasons
 First-They are easier cured than, longstanding cases.
 Secondly curing them a source of infection is destroyed which if al-, lowed to exist throughout the natural life of the worms must of necessity infect other members of the family or community.
 There is no age limit or color ex- ception to the host of the Hookworm. Affected persons as young as 22 months, and as old as 72 years have been found in Arkansas. Examina- tions will be made as follows:
 Sherrill. Monday March 9. le, 23, 30, and April and 1S.
 Altheimer, Tuesday, March 10, IT,, "A and 31, and April 2, and IA.
 Moscow, Wednesday, March Il, IS, 25 and April 1, s and l5.
 Redfield, Thursday, March F, ls, 26 and April ?, 9 and le.
 Pine Bluff, Friday, March l3, 2o, ~ and April 3, 10 and l7.
 Pine Bluff, Saturday, March IA, 2l' 70 .a Ao.,1 4 II ond 1Q