NOTES ON THE TREATMENT OF ANKYLOSTOMA ANEMIA (UNCINARIASIS, HOOKWORM DISEASE) WITH THYMOL

Some interesting articles recently published inThe Journal1and the excellent publication of the members of the former Porto Rico Anemia Commission2have induced me, after a lapse of more than thirty years, to return to the argument of this remedy adopted by me, for the first time, in 1879, in the treatment of brickmaker's anemia, a disease which I ascertained to be due to ankylostomiasis, and which gave me the means of studying this form of anemia, described by me in all its details by the name of "ankylostoma anemia," in order to distinguish it from simple "ankylostomiasis."3 This brief communication does not permit me to enter into details concerning my method of treatment and its wide diffusion, nor of its superiority over other methods in connection with the hookworm of America—Necator americanusStiles—a parasite exceedingly obstinate of expulsion and much more