Hookworm disease : etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment / by George Dock and Charles C. Bass. Illustrated with forty-nine special engravings and colored plate.
- George Dock
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hookworm disease : etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment / by George Dock and Charles C. Bass. Illustrated with forty-nine special engravings and colored plate. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![teresting chapter for Fenner's Southern Medical Ee- ports (vol. 2, p. 429—436, 1851) On the Hygiene of Cot- ton Plantations and the Management of Negro Slaves.'' He confirms what others say of the diet: The general allow- ance of m^at being three and a half to four pounds per week of sound mess pork, or its equivalent in bacon, to each working hand over 10 years old, with bread, hominy, vege- tables, etc., ad libitum. Fish and molasses are given occa- sionally. Not nearly enough of vegetables are grown and fed to negroes. He also said (p. 433): Dirt eating is frequent among young negroes, and always kills them if not cured. The constant use of molasses is said to induce it, but I can not say how correctly. Those under the best care are liable to it. Seems to be occasioned by a morbid state of the stomach, and should be so treated. One dirt eater upon a plantation will infect tJie^ivJiole. Mostly infected at from two to ten year's. Say, one child in forty eats dirt. [Italics ours.—D. and B.] On the whole, the reports from the South in the first half of the nineteenth century could not easily convince one that ankylostomiasis existed there, and in the latter half, for a long time, no accurate observations seem to have been made. Moreover, during this part malaria acquired a new interest and importance, so that its occurrence was easily exaggerated. In 1886 Dr. Joseph Leidy made an interesting remark apropos of some specimens from anemic cats sent by Bel- field, of Chicago. He noted the worms had the same struc- ture of mouth as had ankylostomum duodenale; thought they might be able to infect man, and be one of the previ- ously unrecognized causes of pernicious anemia. This idea had been expressed before, and was then repeated more or less distinctly by various writers for the next ten years. In 1891 Dolley called the attention of American physicians,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21224195_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
