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 THE CORHFJ.ATION BKTWKKN THK (:i[lvMI(Ah COMPOSITION OF AXTHELMTNTICS AND THEIR TIIERAPEUTIC VAl.rp:s 1 CONNECTION WITH THE HOOKWORM INQUIRY IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY.

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Rev. F.ATnER J. F. CAIUS. s..i.. m..s.c.i. (Pari-). Pi'ijfgsor, St. Jnnrph's Collegr. TricliiiiojMihi,

Dr. K. S. .MII.SKAR. m.d.. m.a.. ii.-;c.. d.p.ii.. d.t.m. A: ii.. Offirer in rh/wje, Ankiihtntntninxix Jitifiiirii in ihr Mnih'n^ Pir>.iilri,ri/. (Rfccired (or pablicatioii. N'ovcml>(T •.".!. KL'U.) ', X. HETAXAPimiOl.. Hl.STORY. A.— Thk troatment of hookworm infcrtion with bptannjilithol wnH introcluctxl some twenty years ago, and wn.s first mloptoil in .Vn-mm Efftate*. where it seems to have, in a very nhort timo. siiimtx-*!***! all ilu- other treatments then in vogue. Early in IflOJ. Bontley' piiblishr*! tli.- r.-siilts of his invp.Mtigation into the (-oni|>arutive vaiuen of Hcvfnil anth<'liiiinti(H uie*! in the treatment of ankylo.Mtoniia.Hi.H. The four <lnig'' which a|ii)carc«i to him mo*t UHeftil were, in the orrler given, hct4Uiii|ththol. thymol, pnlvin arei-ip, ami exfracttim filiris. Of thf- two (.h»n'ils hi-< preference J, MP. ( 33 ) *