Word: hookworms
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Died. Dr. Arthur Looss, 62, at Giessen, Germany, former professor of parasitology and biology at the University of Cairo, who first scientifically described the hookworm, Ancylostoma duodenale...
...Sheldon Jackson of Alaska will be remembered through the ages not only for the theology that he taught in Alaska, but unquestionably for his establishment of the reindeer industry of Alaska. The efforts of the Rockefeller Foundations to repair the diseases through hospitals and to prevent diseases like hookworm have not one fota of justification to be rated as bigger service to mankind than the enabling of the grazing lands of Labrador to become a new source of blessing to mankind...