Hookworm Disease Its Ravages Prevention And Cure

Author : George Dock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428489441
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Hookworm Disease written by George Dock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hookworm Disease: Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prophylaxis Few diseases surpass the subject of this work in the strangeness of its history, the importance of its ravages, or the theoretic ease of its extinction. It probably existed from remote antiquity among trop ical peoples, and, although attempts have been made to trace it back to a very early period, these efforts fail for lack of the careful clinical methods of diagnosis that are necessary for the recognition of such diseases. For almost fifty years after the disease was made known in Italy, and after it had been the subject of many important investiga tions in diagnosis, biology, and treatment, it remained for us in America chiefly an interesting, but remote, fact, de void of practical relations. Its absence was accepted as evidence of the greater personal cleanliness and superior mode of life of our citizens, and at most it was feared that among recent immigrants cases might be imported and even spread in less favorable localities. No more striking ex ample of the transitory state of medical knowledge can be advanced than the proof brought within the last few years, not only that hookworms exist as human parasites in a large part of the country, but that they may with reason be looked upon as among the most important causes of diseases of the South in extent, in destruction of life, and in leading to physical and mental degeneration. The fact that the parasites in the United States belong to a new species is a most important one and very suggestive in its bearing on medical zoology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.