S-NA-W 317.73 ORGANIZATION OF HYGIENIC LABORATORY. WALTER WYMAN, Surgeon-General, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. ADVISORY BOARD. U. S. Army; Surgeon John F. Urie, U. S. Navy; D. E. Salmon, Chief of U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry; and Milton J. Rosenau, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, ex officio. Prof. William H. Welch, Prof. Simon Flexner, Prof. Victor C. Vaughan, Prof. William T. Sedgwick, and Prof. Frank F. Wesbrook. LABORATORY CORPS. Director.-P. A. Surg. Milton J. Rosenau. Assistant Director.-Asst. Surg. John F. Anderson. DIVISION OF PATHOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY. Chief of Division.-P. A. Surg. Milton J. Rosenau. Assistants.—Asst. Surgs. John F. Anderson, Herman B. Parker, Edward Francis Thomas B. McClintic, and Clarence W. Wille. DIVISION OF ZOOLOGY. Chief of Division.-Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D. Assistants. Phillip E. Garrison, A. B.; Brayton H. Ransom, B. Sc., M. A.; Earle C. Stevenson, B. Sc.; Arthur L. Murray. The Old World hookworm-Agchylostoma duodenale Dubini, 1843, or Uncinaria duodenalis (Dubini, 1843) Railliet, 1885- Itinerary of the trip through the Southern Atlantic States-Continued. Page. Whites appear to be more severely affected than negroes. 51 Occupation of patients.... 52 Severe cases are more common in women and children than in males over Stage of simple anemia or oligocythemia (chlorotic stage). 56 56 Objective and subjective symptoms; analysis of symptoms-Continued. Head-Continued. Nostrils.... Lips and gums. Page. Teeth Tongue. Neck... Thorax. Abdomen.. 67 "Potbelly" or "buttermilk belly," dropsy and tympanites. 67 External genitalia, sexual function, menstruation, sterility. Prevalence of uncinariasis in the United States 73 74 74 74 74 74 76 77 77 77 77 77 77 78 78 78 79 79 Objective and subjective symptoms; analysis of symptoms-Continued. Clinical diagnosis of hookworm disease Blotting paper test with feces. Microscopic examination of feces. Gross examination of feces.... Treatment of hookworm disease. Male fern. Calomel General treatment.. Prognosis. Lethality of hookworm disease. Post-mortem appearances . Prevention of hookworm disease Adult worms in the intestine; treatment. Clean hands Wearing shoes .. Common interpretation of hookworm disease.. Economic importance of hookworm disease Geographic distribution and abstracts of cases found in the United States...... Bibliography Index to zoological names Index to authorities cited. Addenda... |