﻿THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



B. Medical Sciences 



Vol. II AUGUST, 1907 ■ No. 4 



NECATOR AMERICANUS IN NATIVES OF THE PHILIPPINE 



ISLANDS. 1 



By Clarence L. Cole. : 



In the routine examinations of patients admitted to the United States 

 Array Hospital at Manila, P. I., many members of Philippine Scout 

 organizations and native civilian employees have been found to have a 

 few ova of Uncinaria in their stools. In these cases the presence of 

 U urinaria has not made itself manifest clinically to such an extent that 

 a diagnosis of uncinariasis has often been made, and as many of these 

 patients have been admitted from temporary stations in the field, where 

 microscopical examinations could not be undertaken, they were therefore 

 sent to the hospital accompanied by a different diagnosis. It has been 

 customary to accept Uncinaria ova as belonging to the Old World species, 

 without studying the adult parasites obtained after the administration 

 of vermicides to those patients whose stools have shown ova, because of 

 the fact that no other varieties of Uncinaria have been reported from 

 the Philippine Islands. 



In September, 1906, a private of the Twenty-eighth Company, Philip- 

 pine Scouts, was admitted to the Division Hospital, Manila, P. L, and 

 ova of Unrinaria were found in his stool, they being more abundant in 



1 Read at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Philippine Islands Medical As- 

 sociation, Manila, February 28, 1907, with the permission of the chief surgeon, 

 Philippines Division, Manila, P. I. 



- First lieutenant and assistant surgeon, United States Army ; pathologist and 

 bacteriologist, United States Army, Division Hospital, Manila. 



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