hook-worm

Pellagra (hook-worm or Lombardy Leprosy) is, according to the tenets of the Regular School, an endemic skin and spinal disease of Southern

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Soon after this the investigations of a military surgeon demonstrated the important fact that ninety per cent of the working population of the island were affected with the hook-worm disease.

Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen

The hook-worm which affects so many persons in the South is often called

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Besides the more common ailments, with which all are familiar, there are many cases of hook-worm anemia and

Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen

I don't believe these hook-worm victims ever turned my father out.

The Prince and Betty 1928

I don't know what it is – the hookworm, perhaps, – though he sees an old doctor up this way sometimes and he says it is n't the hook-worm.

The Mystery at Number Six 1922

A resident of Santa Rosa, victim of the hook-worm.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

The Village Virus is the germ which -- it's extraordinarily like the hook-worm -- it infects ambitious people who stay too long in the provinces.

Main Street 1920

The Village Virus is the germ which -- it's extraordinarily like the hook-worm -- it infects ambitious people who stay too long in the provinces.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

"More like hook-worm, I said," he explained, speaking louder.

The Turmoil 1915