MODERN VIEWS ON THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF HOOKWORM DISEASE
Authors: Justin Andrews
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 December 1942MODERN VIEWS ON THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF HOOKWORM DISEASEJUSTIN ANDREWS, Sc.D.JUSTIN ANDREWS, Sc.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-17-6-891 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptHookworms were first observed in man 104 years ago1; they were known to have become well-naturalized citizens of this hemisphere some 60 years later.2Although their etiological rôle was taken for granted prior to that time, most of our reasonably exact information concerning their life-history, transmission, distribution, social and economic significance and control has accumulated since the turn of the century. Many of these facts, familiar to parasitologists, have not yet found their way into medical texts. They appear intermittently in current medical journals in abbreviated form usually without interpretation. The object of this paper, therefore, is to present a...References1. DUBINI A: Nuovo verme intestinale umano (Agchylostoma duodenale) constituente un sesto genere dei nematoidei proprii dell' uomo, Ann. univ. di med. e. chir., Milan, 1843, cvi, 5-13, 2 pls. Google Scholar2. ASHFORD BK: Ankylostomiasis in Puerto Rico, New York Med. Jr., 1900, lxxi, 552-556. Google Scholar3. PERRONCITO E: Osservazioni elmintologiche relative alla malattia sviluppatasi endemica negli operai del Gottardo, Atti. r. Accad. dei Lincei, Rome (Mem. d. classe di sci. fis., mat. e nat.), 1800-a, Anno 277, ser. 3, vii, 381-433. Google Scholar4. PERRONCITO E: L'anemia dei contadini, fornaciai e minatori in rapporte con l'attuale epidemia negli operai del Gottardo, Ann. d. R. Accad. di Agric. di Torino, 1880-b, xxiii, 219-410. Google Scholar5. 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