Anchylostoma Duodenale *Read at the Indian Medical Congress, Dec. 1894.

(Continued from page 341.) Male fern is certainly a most disagreeable medicine, bat my experience is that it is less objected to than thymol, and that the giddiness, fainting, vomiting and collapse which it produces are milder and far less frequently produced by it than by thymol. It is much to be hoped that some less dangerous and disagreeable but equally efficacious drug will be discovered for the treatment of this disease, i.e., such a ckug as could safely be sold or issued to the public and to superintendents of estates for use in these cases. Dr. Braddon, of the Straits Settlements, suggests oil of peppermint. Dr. Schokman, of Ceylon, says he used kerosine oil in 30-drop doses twice a day in mucilage with marked success in one case, and Dr. Macdonald suggests that carbonate of guiacol ought to be efficacious. All are worthy of a trial. I attach a summary showing the chief signs, symptoms, and complications observed in 783 cases of this disease :?