In the journal above mentioned, Wucherer records his own discoveries as follows (‘Ueber die Anchylostomunkrankheit,’ &c.):--“Although Griesinger with well-founded confidence gave an account of his ‘find’ and its significance, yet it remained for a long time unnoticed and unutilised, till at length a case led me to corroborate it. During my many years’ residence in Brazil, especially during the first year, I had very frequent opportunities for witnessing the tropical chlorosis, but seldom to treat it, as it is one of those diseases for which Brazilians seek no medical assistance. Its treatment falls to the lot of the _curiosos_, _curadeiros_ (quacks), who employ the fresh pulp of a species of fig as a remedial agent with the best results. On the 13th of December, 1865, I was called to the Benedictine monastery in Bahia to see a slave of the _order_ suffering from _hypoæmia_. The patient was about thirty years of age, married, a strongly built mulatto. He was a field laborer on the Ingua plantation of the order, who exhibited in a conspicuous degree all the symptoms that occur in hypoæmia except the diarrhœa. He was well nourished, but strikingly pale, his whole face, but especially the eyelids, being œdematously swollen, as also were the feet, legs, and hands. The hands and feet were very cold. His appearance betrayed the most horrible anguish or low despondency. With difficulty only could he raise himself, being obliged to lie down again immediately on account of his weakness. Auscultation revealed a diminished respiratory murmur, and bronchial expiration in both lungs. The pulse was very rapid and small, the patient complaining of pain in the region of the heart. He had frequent palpitation when he moved, and he complained of pain in other parts of the body. His abdomen was much distended by gases, but not sensitive to pressure from without, except in the region of the stomach. The urine was clear, its specific gravity 1007 to 1023-1/2°. Under great difficulties he resided for several months after his marriage at Inhatâ. Earlier he had been on the estates of the order at Rio de S. Francisco. He there suffered for a long time from intermittent fever, but at Inhatâ he entirely recovered. At Inhatâ the slaves frequently suffered from hypoæmia, but in S. Francisco not at all. He appears not to have made any misuse of brandy. The slaves of the order were well cared for, and supplied with good and wholesome nourishing food. The patient had already, for a long period, treated himself with steel wine, yet was continually getting worse and worse. He had not taken the pulp of the fig. As I was unaware he had suddenly become so ill, they hastily despatched a message to the town. There was no good to be expected from the further employment of iron, and the patient was in such a condition that from the very first I despaired of his recovery. I immediately prescribed the pulp of the Gammeleira (_Ficus doliaria_), but it could not be easily obtained.