Comparison of Thymol and Some Other Drugs in the Treatment of Hookworm Infection
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Up to a little more than twenty-five years ago thymol was the only efficient drug at our disposal for the removal of hookworms. Since then there have been successively introduced beta-naphthol, oil of chenopodium, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachlorethylene and hexylresorcinol, all of which have had their advocates, but in common with thymol none of them are free from certain disadvantages, and it is in the assessment of the disadvantages against the efficiency of these various drugs that considerable disagreement has arisen. Lane (1935), who, from his published work,
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