RT Journal
A1 ALVAREZ WC
T1 ANkylostomiasis in mexico and its diagnosis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD May 1
VO LII
IS 18
SP 1388
OP 1390
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420440016001e
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420440016001e
AB Before the war with Spain ankylostomiasis was a disease almost unknown to American physicians, although in the literature of the South reports of "dirt-eating," accompanied by a severe anemia, can be traced as far back as 1808. The war brought the responsibility of making Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines habitable, and the fascinating new science of tropical medicine came to the fore in this country. The sanitation of the Canal Zone and the banishment of yellow fever from Havana has called the attention of the world at large to this subject and to the men who have accomplished so much in so short a time. The great work of Stiles, with the identification of the Uncinaria Americana and demonstration of its prevalence in the Southern States, and the investigations of Herbert Gunn and others in California, which show that almost all the common tropical diseases can be studied in