Pellagra (hook-worm or Lombardy Leprosy) is, according to the tenets of the Regular School, an endemic skin and spinal disease of Southern ❋ Louis Dechmann (N/A)
Soon after this the investigations of a military surgeon demonstrated the important fact that ninety per cent of the working population of the island were affected with the hook-worm disease. ❋ Edith H. Allen (N/A)
The hook-worm which affects so many persons in the South is often called ❋ Mary Huston Gregory (N/A)
Besides the more common ailments, with which all are familiar, there are many cases of hook-worm anemia and ❋ Edith H. Allen (N/A)
I don't believe these hook-worm victims ever turned my father out. ❋ Unknown (1928)
I don't know what it is – the hookworm, perhaps, – though he sees an old doctor up this way sometimes and he says it is n't the hook-worm. ❋ Unknown (1922)
A resident of Santa Rosa, victim of the hook-worm. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
The Village Virus is the germ which -- it's extraordinarily like the hook-worm -- it infects ambitious people who stay too long in the provinces. ❋ Unknown (1920)
"More like hook-worm, I said," he explained, speaking louder. ❋ Unknown (1915)
The basteriology of milk will be treated briefly and the remainder of the time will be spent in learning the laboratory methods of making the diagnosis in cases of diphtheria, tuberculosis, malaria, and hook-worm disease. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The extensive distribution of preventable diseases, such as typhoid fever, malaria, tuberculosis, and hook-worm disease, with their burden of suffering and economic loss, is becoming ❋ Unknown (1909)
Endurance through generations has given the people large immunity from the effects of hook-worm and malaria, but not from the indigenous diseases, kraw-kraw, yaws and elephantiasis, nor of course from dysentery and smallpox which the Europeans introduced. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)
This hook-worm disease is probably the most common of all the serious diseases prevalent in the South, and as it is easily curable, and can be readily prevented, there is no matter which should be of greater interest to the people in the infected regions, especially those who live in villages or on farms. ❋ Unknown (1896)
_ -- The animal parasite called hook-worm closely resembles, externally, the pin-worm which so often occurs in children. ❋ Unknown (1896)
It is thus seen that a child having hook-worm disease becomes a menace, on account of the privy, to its brothers and sisters, and of course quite commonly receives back into its own body, worms that had previously escaped as eggs. ❋ Unknown (1896)
_ -- Having entered through the skin, the embryos of the hook-worm, moving by a circuitous route finally reach the intestines, and, grasping hold of the mucous membrane with their saw-like teeth, they begin to suck blood and grow until they reach the size of the adult worm in about a month or six weeks. ❋ Unknown (1896)
It has been only recently recognized that a large percentage of the invalidism and a great number of the deaths yearly in the southern portion of the United States are caused by a very small intestinal parasite known as the _Necator americanus_, or hook-worm. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Scientific investigations conducted with the aim of discovering the causes for this general inefficiency have led to the conclusion that the eradication of the mosquito and hook-worm will add greatly to the ability of the wage-earners. ❋ Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1880)
Cotton being well-past decline, and having wrecked the soil, the "new" economy of recent decades dedicated itself to building car-dependent air-conditioned suburban sprawl - the perceived perfect antidote to a previous economic order based on serfdom, hook-worm, and inescapable heat. ❋ Unknown (2009)
