Word: hookworms
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...dirt. Most of the dirt-eaters had less of the iron-rich foods, such as molasses, mustard greens, liver, in their diet than did the non-dirt-eaters. And as far as the scientists could find out, the craving for dirt (known as geophagia) has nothing to do with hookworm, as many doctors firmly believe, for hookworm is very rare in geophagous Oktibbeha County...
...office. It inspired at least ten other major books (e.g., Gerald Johnson's The Wasted Land). It also won the distinction of being banned by Georgia's gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge. Thanks to Dr. Odum, Southerners talk frankly and learnedly about once unmentionable taboos: hookworm, poverty, farm tenancy, poor schools...
...prescribed for the distant sick by listening to a description of their symptoms, then smelling and tasting shirts, brassières, girdles or any other apparel that had been in contact with the afflicted anatomy. Once Tupá Mbaé investigated a man's sock and correctly diagnosed hookworm, only to learn that the patient was not worried about his hookworm but about his undetected tuberculosis...
Since the privy program started, - 1935, health officials have noted a "gradual decline" in filth-borne diseases such as malaria and hookworm, a marked decline in the typhoid death rate. Said Mississippi's Sanitary Engineer Herbert Andrew Kroeze last week: "The privies are saving many lives...
Died. Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, 73, U. S. Public Health Service surgeon whose discovery of the wide prevalence of hookworm disease in the South 40 years ago was, according to late Ambassador Walter Hines Page, "the most helpful event in the history of our Southern States"; of heart disease; in Baltimore...