Evening star., 1928-12-30
sanitation CALLED
HOOKWORM CURE
Parasitic Infection Rapidly
acquired and Quickly Lost,
Texan Educator Says.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 29.-Sanitary
reforms were emphasized today by DR..
Asa c. Chandler of Rice Institute,
Houston. Tex, as an important means
Of reducing hookworm infection, which
affects large groups in the United
States.
Citing observations he has made in
India, he told members of the Ameri-
ran Association for the Advancement of
Science that the theory that these
parasites are slowly acquired and slow
b lost is unsound.
Instead, he declared, the evidence
eavors the view that they are rapidly
acquired and rapidly lost, which would
mean that improvement in the level Of
hookworm infection after sanitary re-
forms would follow rapidly"
1t has been demonstrated, he said,
that treatment to expel them without
measures to prevent reinfection is fol-
lowed by mere temporary reduction
Of the infection. In countries with a
long dry season treatments to eXpel
the parasites should be given at the end
of the dry season rather than the end
of the wet season, he said.
Locates Garden of Eden.
The Garden of Eden was located in
Central Asia in paper by DR.. George
Sullivan of the American University be-
fore the Archaeological Institute of
America. Saying that in the past it had
been theoretically discovered in Baby
lonia, Europe and Africa, he gave nine
reasons for a new belief in Central
Asia. They were based largely on re-
cent discoveries in the Cobb Desert, eS-
pecially those of Roy Chapman An
drews. They included discovery in Asia
of the oldest human remains dating
back half a million years, the oldest
human teeth, found near Peking, house
hold trinkets estimated at 10000 years
pld and the fact that two anthropoid
hpe species originated in Asia.
If folks were unable to oppose their
thumbs, which means to place them
against finger tips. in picking up things,
there might be less tooth troubles and
diseases that enter via the mouth.
But through highly developed use of
hands, DR.. Charles A. Kofoid of the
University of California said to the
american Society of Parasitologists, the
human mouth is open to more kinds of
Infection than any other part of the
body DR.. Kofoid discussed late de-
GelopmentS in the study of pyorrhea,
saying it is produced by at least two
identified types of single cell animals.
FteCenC discovery Jnat one OF IneSe,
trichomonas buccalis, was widespread
In some types of pyorrhea, he said,
was surprise.
New Biology Theories.
Dr. William Morton Wheeler, dean of
Mlssey Institution, Harvard University,
bold of new tendencies in the theories
pf biology, which is the science of liv-
Ing. He said that mechanism had been
the main foundation in the past, and
that the ''organistic" conception now
coming into use probably would recon-
cile conflicting theories. This new con-
ception is based on study of how beings
and society are organized. DR.. Wheeler
said I'VE had better preserve discreet
Rnd absolute silence" about such things
as "entelechies psychoids," which he
did not define.
Prof. Franz Boas of Columbia Uni
Fersity related the facts collected in
recent years indicating that the original
Indian inhabitants of both Americas
migrated here from Siberia or Asia, and
that they all were probably from the
original Mongolian race.