1789 - Medicine
Medicine
Hookworm (Haakenwurm) receives its name in a report by a Norwegian zoologist named Froelich who has discovered a hairlike parasitic worm in the intestine of a fox (see Goeze, 1782). Froelich notes curious hooklike structures in the worm's tail, and he assigns it to a new genus that he establishes under the name Uticinaria. Introduced into the Americas from Africa 2 centuries ago, hookworm causes debilitating anemia and pain (see Ashford, 1899).
Former Continental Army physician-in-chief John Morgan dies impoverished at his native Philadelphia October 15 at age 54.
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