Manual of pathology : including bacteriology, the technic of postmortems, and methods of pathologic research . , 1903. Powell, Trans. of the Bombay Med. and Physical Soc, Sept., 190;Biol., 1904, vol. Ivii, p. 76. Remlinger, C. R. Soc. de ANIMAL IARASITES AS CAUSES OF DISEASE. 31 I infection and the appearance of the worm is about one year. Thefemale is about 60 cm. to 90 cm. in length and 2 mm. in diameter, andis commonly solitary, although not always so. It is usually claimed thatthe parasites—probably both male and female—enter with the food;only the female develops. It penetrates the mucosa
Manual of pathology : including bacteriology, the technic of postmortems, and methods of pathologic research . , 1903. Powell, Trans. of the Bombay Med. and Physical Soc, Sept., 190;Biol., 1904, vol. Ivii, p. 76. Remlinger, C. R. Soc. de ANIMAL IARASITES AS CAUSES OF DISEASE. 31 I infection and the appearance of the worm is about one year. Thefemale is about 60 cm. to 90 cm. in length and 2 mm. in diameter, andis commonly solitary, although not always so. It is usually claimed thatthe parasites—probably both male and female—enter with the food;only the female develops. It penetrates the mucosa anfl eventuallyreaches the subcutaneous tissues, in which it completes its does not believe in the entrance of the parasite throughthe alimentary canal. He is of the opinion that it is introduced eitherin some embryonic form, as by the mosquito, or that in some otherway it gains access to the subcutaneous tissues directly from no other way is it possible to explain the fact that over seventy-fiveper cent, of the lesions occur in the lower extremities, and the greater. FiC. 126.—, or DiSEASF. A case of Filaria medincnsis (retxirtcd in .icriran Mcdicim-. iThe abscesses and swelling of both feet are well shown. 1-rom the left iix^t seen; this limb is the more swollen. But one worm can bo soi-n jir .tr i Im. :five worms in this case; four are shown. The patient recovered > be»erc number below the knee. During the period in which the parasite isdeveloping in the subcutaneous tissues it may be distinctly palpal)le;finally suppuration ensues and the worm is cast off, with innumerableova; the latter, when thrown into water, penetrate the m which further development occurs. The parasite has been <? m a patient, a native, and always a resident, of Philadelphia, but it israre in this country. In filariasis due to the Filaria sanguinis hominis a moderate in-crease in the eosinophils is not uncommon. In dracontia? •
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