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...