AN AMERICAN DISEASE.
j v ./// f 'INFECTED. .< r ■'",''/. SLEEPING SICKNESS.V;;, "(By 'Telcs[raphi]prc63':A3Bociatlon-bopjrrlßht.).' ■; 29,' 9.10 p.mi)//■/.//>/ .?' 1 '-■■</-''-^; : '-.^i : :i'.'::?:: : Now' York, October >29. ! , r has /given a million doUars'to, a commission .of doctors which is'-in-yestigating "hookworm, disease," which .is pre.valerit.'iuoruraT'districts in ; tho' stktete^:;Sfi;::;;^;;\; : : : ■:/-.':.'-""'';■; ■•'..;. V The/disease/is-, similar';'to sleeping 1 /sickness. The comib'ission;.states'ithat two million -persons of all/classes,ar'o.infected, v./ "',.■ j.[/'Hookworm"./is no doubt a The message.waa referred,-.for interpretation, to a'leading medical manin this city, but he was unable {o recognise in; the term "hookworm" any disease, which could'be described as being ■similar..to "sleeping 'sickness." Tho character-istics.'of-the malady known as "hydatids" aro not; inconsistent .with the. term "hookworm," but, they 'are; totally different-from- '■ those .: of .''sleeping'sicMess.''];:: :• " ; M. ■■'':-'.-:'.'".-"-'-- '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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112AN AMERICAN DISEASE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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