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of the worm as a cause of the Egyptian chlorosis resulted 

 from a post-mortem examination made on the 17th of April, 

 1851. 



In the journal above mentioned, Wucherer records his own 

 discoveries as follows (' Ueber die Anchylostomunkrankheit/ 

 &c.) : " Although Griesinger with well-founded confidence 

 gave an account of his ' find ' and its significance, yet it remained 

 for a long time unnoticed and unutilised, till at length a case 

 led me to corroborate it. During my many years' residence in 

 Brazil, especially during the first year, I had very frequent 

 opportunities for witnessing the tropical chlorosis, but seldom to 

 treat it, as it is one of those diseases for which Brazilians seek 

 no medical assistance. Its treatment falls to the lot of the 

 curiosoSj curadeiros (quacks), who employ the fresh pulp of a 

 species of fig as a remedial agent with the best results. On 

 the 13th of December, 1865, I was called to the Benedictine 

 monastery in Bahia to see a slave of the order suffering from 

 hypo&mia. The patient was about thirty years of age, married, 

 a strongly built mulatto. He was a field laborer on the Ingua 

 plantation of the order, who exhibited in a conspicuous degree 

 all the symptoms that occur in hypogemia except the diarrhoea. 

 He was well nourished, but strikingly pale, his whole face, but 

 especially the eyelids, being oedematously swollen, as also were 

 the feet, legs, and hands. The hands and feet were very cold. 

 His appearance betrayed the most horrible anguish or low de- 

 spondency. With difficulty only could he raise himself, being 

 obliged to lie down again immediately on account of his weak- 

 ness. Auscultation revealed a diminished respiratory murmur, 

 and bronchial expiration in both lungs. The pulse was very 

 rapid and small, the patient complaining of pain in the region 

 of the heart. He had frequent palpitation when he moved, and 

 he complained of pain in other parts of the body. His abdomen 

 was much distended by gases, but not sensitive to pressure from 

 without, except in the region of the stomach. The urine was 

 clear, its specific gravity 1007 to 1023^. Under great diffi- 

 culties he resided for several months after his marriage at 

 Inhata. Earlier he had been on the estates of the order at 

 Rio de S. Francisco. He there suffered for a long time from 

 intermittent fever, but at Inhata he entirely recovered. At 

 Inhata the slaves frequently suffered from hypogemia, but in 

 S. Francisco not at all. He appears not to have made any 

 misuse of brandy. The slaves of the order were well cared for, 



