Publication

Publication
Author: Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 624
Release: 1921
Genre: Public health
ISBN:

Anthelmintics and Their Uses in Medical and Veterinary Practice

Anthelmintics and Their Uses in Medical and Veterinary Practice
Author: Ram Nath Chopra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1928
Genre: Anthelmintics
ISBN:

The text presents a logical arrangement. Section I contains a general treatment of the anthelmintics, an excellent summary of the helminths of man and domestic animals, and a discussion of the correlation between chemical composition of the drugs and their anthelmintic action. The subtitle of Section II is "Anthelmintics Acting on Parasites in the Gut." The particular drugs used in the treatment of the cestodes and the nematodes are here considered: Male Fern, Pelletierine, Carbon Tetrachloride, Chenopodium, Santonin, Thymol, Beta Naphthol, and numerous others, some of them even of slight or doubtful value. Certain proprietary preparations are also discussed. Section III deals with "Anthelmintics used against somatic parasitic infections," the various antimony preparations and emetine. The more important drugs receive extensive treatment. For example, Carbon Tetrachloride is presented in outline as follows: Historical and General, Chemistry, Impurities and Tests for them, Pharmacological Action, Toxicology, Dosage and Methods of Administration, Effectiveness, Uses in Animals, and the Combination of Carbon Tetrachloride and Chenopodium

To Cast Out Disease

To Cast Out Disease
Author: John Farley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0195166310

This is the first history of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division (1913-1951), which was one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century, a precursor of the World Health Organization. Based on extensive primary research, the book is enlivened with character sketches and descriptions of the conflicts among the "medical barons" who ran the division as they attempted to eradicate many serious diseases and to set up schools of public health and nursing around the world.