. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 238 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 26, 1919. M^. chenopodium. Dr Howards experience is that thyninl is a much better and safer remedy than chenopodium. 'J'bymol is not so liable to produce toxic efiFects, and two doses usually effect a cure in eight days. At the tinif of tnking thymol, the patient must abstain from food, iind it is stated that the drug when mixed with an equal quantity of milk sugar is mote efficacious than when administered by it.'self. r/i£ CONTROL OF HOOKWORM DISEASE BY THE INTENSIVE METHOD By H. H
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 238 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 26, 1919. M^. chenopodium. Dr Howards experience is that thyninl is a much better and safer remedy than chenopodium. 'J'bymol is not so liable to produce toxic efiFects, and two doses usually effect a cure in eight days. At the tinif of tnking thymol, the patient must abstain from food, iind it is stated that the drug when mixed with an equal quantity of milk sugar is mote efficacious than when administered by it.'self. r/i£ CONTROL OF HOOKWORM DISEASE BY THE INTENSIVE METHOD By H. H. Howard, , New Y'Tk City. The Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Hoard, 1919. Dr. Howard, who is Director for the West Indies section of the hookwortn campaign, desiribes in this booklet (issued as Publication No. 8 of the I. H.'B.) the methods adopted, the organization, and the results so far achieved, regarding to th's highly important work in the interest of human welfare. The publication is one that should be carefully read by West Indians, and particularly by those who by reason of personal prejudice or ignorance are antipathetic, or merely apathetic towards intensive treatment. The author begins by pointing and that theoretically the treatment and eradication of hookworm disease should be a simple matter. There are few diseases which we understand more fully. There are no diseases where we have at least two certain specific remedies. The trouble lies in the personal element. People, particularly in tropical countries, fail to give perfect co-operation The intensive treatment of hookworm is an attempt to approximate complete relief and control within a certain definite area. Four things are essential: the inhabitants must submit to a census and to an examination; those found to be infected muat submit to treatment; the people must a'so cooperate in the matter of preventing the hookworm eggs from getting into the soil : this latter point is largely a questio
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