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Accidental Infection with Uncinaria 
In answer to a request for information in regard to his condition in June, 
the following reply was received: 
I have made other examinations and found several ova of Uncinaria. I am experiencing 
well-marked symptoms of the disease, such as general weakness, dizziness, and palpitation 
of the heart. My bronchitis is almost the same as when I left Panama. I have not as yet 
taken the treatment because of lack of time. 
After repeated advice in regard to treatment, on October 31 I received the 
following letter: 
When I received your telegram about treatment, I had already taken one treatment 
with chenopodium and collected the worms which were passed. I am enclosing a sample. 
The sample mentioned contained about twenty hookworms. On November 15 
the following statement arrived: 
After a second treatment I was unable to find any worms. Repeated examinations for 
ova have been negative. I am now feeling quite well, except for palpitation of the heart. 
From the above history it seems certain that in this case the larvae after 
passing through the skin, travelled up the lymphatics, through the axillary 
glands, into the blood stream and into the lungs in three days. The parasites 
had reached the intestines and had matured within thirty-eight days. One 
treatment with chenopodium had evidently sufficed to cure this particular case. 
