Anchylostomiasis in Egypt

Still, he states that he has often searched for the parasite in cases of ansemic women in Cairo without finding it. The average duration of illness appears to be about three to five years. Of 29 cases, 13 had been ill for four years, six for five years, three for six years, two for eight years, two for nine years, two for eleven years, and one for upwards of fifteen years. Dr. Sandwith lays some stress upon the differential characters of this disease compared with beriberi with which it has so often been confounded. As to the mortality, 8 per cent, of those under