(B-024006) Roundtree, Moses. Hookworm Doctor: The Life Story of Dr. C. F. Strosnider, a Practicing Physician for over Half a Century. Goldsboro, NC: Nash Printing Co., 1967(?). 1st Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 111 pages. Very Good with no DJ. Trade PB. Inscribed by Strosnider on title page. Orange stapled wrappers. This is a paperback , stapled booklet format publication . There are a few silverfish marks along the spine . A very scarce book. Strosnider was resented as a meddling Yankee doctor in North Carolina. He conducted an anti-hookworm campaign as a member of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission (1910-1913) . Strosnider coined the hookworm 'the great Southern murderer', but even the Governor of the state, Robert B. Glenn, did not want to believe that hookworms were real. (Strosnider, Charles, Physicians, Medicine, Hookworms)
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