Abstract
The oil of chenopodium is an essential oil which is distilled from American wormseed or Jerusalem oak, a weed quite common in Maryland and in the states farther south. It first came into use in therapeutics in the treatment of ascariasis, but in recent years it has also become the chief remedy against ankylostomiasis, and is at present practically the only drug used for the eradication of this disease. As shown in the reports of the International Health Commission,<sup>1</sup>the number of patients treated with the oil of chenopodium is very large. It has been employed in several million cases of hookworm in the last few years.<sup>2</sup>Its behavior in the body is therefore a matter of considerable interest, not only to the pharmacologist, but also to those specially interested in the treatment of hookworm and other intestinal parasites. The obvious necessity of making the information concerning its
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