Uncinariasis (Hookworm disease) in Porto Rico : a medical and economic problem . INTERIOR OF A HOSPITAL UNCINARIASIS IN PORTO EICO. Ill have been infected. Following this was a resume of Bentleys andBoycott and Haldanes clinical observation on the dermatitis coinci-dent upon ankylostome infection and Claude Smiths human andLooss* animal experiments. All of this is omitted, as it is now wellknown, and we take up the thread of the report again in its applica-tion to what was then but a theory to many and at best a scientificfact unsubstantiated by any great number of cases such as our wor
Uncinariasis (Hookworm disease) in Porto Rico : a medical and economic problem . INTERIOR OF A HOSPITAL UNCINARIASIS IN PORTO EICO. Ill have been infected. Following this was a resume of Bentleys andBoycott and Haldanes clinical observation on the dermatitis coinci-dent upon ankylostome infection and Claude Smiths human andLooss* animal experiments. All of this is omitted, as it is now wellknown, and we take up the thread of the report again in its applica-tion to what was then but a theory to many and at best a scientificfact unsubstantiated by any great number of cases such as our work,for the first time, was able to bring forward.] * * * * * * * It is believed that it will always be impossible to rigidly excludeother routes of infection, but we are also very positive of the fact,which further remarks will render all but certain, that infection byuncinaria of man. in this island, is generally contracted throughpenetration of the skin by the larva?, and that, once having thuseffected an entrance, they pursue a more or less direct course to theintestines, the point of election. This may
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