Billings and Hickey[93] believe that hookworm disease is contracted by unconscious coprophagy (from raw vegetables) much more frequently than is generally supposed.
Among the diseases caused by parasitic animals are malaria, yellow fever, the sleeping sickness, and the hookworm disease.
Vinegar eels, the horsehair worm, the pork worm or trichina and the dread hookworm are examples.
The hookworm is not a bit spectacular: it doesn't get itself discussed in legislative halls or furiously debated in political campaigns.
But the most efficient workmanlike piece of organization that my mortal eyes have ever seen is Rose's hookworm worm work.
Page, of course, had his preliminary laugh, but then the hookworm began to work on his imagination.
And Congress seems likely to charter the big Rockefeller Foundation, which will at once make five millions available for chasing the hookworm off the face of the earth.
The hookworm now filled his thoughts as completely as it did those of his friend; he studied it, he talked about it; and characteristically he set to work to see what could be done.
This does literally beat the devil; for, if the hookworm isn't the devil, what is?
Flexner is probably the leading medical scientist in the United States, his judgment at once lifted the hookworm issue to a new plane.
Stiles had discovered that a hitherto unclassified species of a parasite popularly known as the hookworm prevailed to an astonishing extent in all the Southern States.
Wickliffe Rose, the head of the International Health Board, came to London to discuss the possibility of beginning hookworm work in the British Empire, especially in Egypt and India.
The encouraging part of this discovery was that the patients could quickly be cured and the hookworm eradicated by a few simple improvements in sanitation.
Buttrick, who, in turn, took the case of the hookworm to his old associate, Dr.
But the humorous aspect of the hookworm always interfered with his cause; the microbe of laziness had at last been found!
Flexner was unfamiliar with the Stiles hookworm work.
Mr. Rockefeller gave a million dollars to a sanitary commission for the eradication of the hookworm in the Southern States, and of this Page became a charter member.
It wasn't hookworm put me in a position where I had to take anything I could get!
It wasn't hookworm came into the New Orleans stock company where I was understudying leads and getting my chance to play big things.
There is a moral hookworm throughout the country, and life slumps down to a hand-to-mouth drag from one day to the next.
It takes more than mixed blood and hookworm and snobbishness to account for the present social conditions of Central America.
Some factors affecting the propagation of hookworm infections in the Asansol Mining Settlement with special reference to the part played by cockroaches in mines.
Some remarks on the hookworm problem in South Africa.
Strong reaches the following conclusion: "The figures show, then, that hookworm disease unmistakably affects mental development.
Strong, with the purpose of examining the "Effects of Hookworm Disease on the Mental and Physical Development of Children.
The work of the Rockefeller Foundation for the extermination of hookworm disease (see references).
Health conditions had been very bad in this state, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases being prevalent.
That Egyptian chlorosis, afterward identified with Old World "hookworm disease," is caused by the Ankylostoma duodenale was shown by Greisinger in 1851.
One of the most interesting methods of extension of infection, showing on what small circumstances infection may depend, is seen in the case of the hookworm disease, which causes such devastation in the Southern States.
There would be but little extension of the hookworm disease in a community where shoes were worn and the habits were cleanly.
The third parasitical disease common in some parts of the United States has received much attention during this last year and is known as the hookworm disease.
Creoles in yellow-fever districts have a natural immunity from the hookworm disease, although probably the class are responsible for its generous transmission to the poor whites with whom they associate.
Two Americans in Porto Rico showed the possibility of stamping out hookworm disease.
Is it not humiliating that public lethargy made it necessary for Mr Rockefeller to provide funds for the investigation and eradication of hookworm disease?
But," said the stranger, "I was not aware that the hookworm is painful.
And while he's about it, have him send a hookworm to do you up the back.
The Hookworm Victim He was a mournful looking wreck, with yellow face and scrawny neck, and weary eyes that looked as though they had monopoly of woe.
The victims of thehookworm scourge, the toilers at the loom and forge, the humble yeoman at his plow, may see some ray of comfort now!
But I will break the hookworm lose, and cook its everlasting goose!
We can prevent hookworm disease by preventing the ground from being polluted.
The young hookworm sheds its skin two or three times, growing a little larger each time it sheds.
The hookworm robs them of the good rich blood, and makes children, and even grown persons, dull and lazy.
The mouth of the hookworm has a sharp hook which it fastens into the wall of the food tube.
