Cholera and Intestinal Helminths

'o/? the Helminth ological Inquiry, School of ' opicnl Medicine, Calcutta. Under the Indian Research Fund Association) Case reports are fairly common in the literature (especially in India) of ascans in ection accompanied by choleraic symptoms mc 1 have cleared up after passage of the worms, either with or without specific anthelmintic treatment. The evidence in these reports that the worms were responsible for the frequent bowel evacuations is at best presumptive, and it must be remembered that cholera itself or acute diarrhoea may clear up rapidly whether