. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. fterthe ova are deposited by the insect, a painful swelling occurs whichmay change from one point to another. When suppuration is induced,the larvae can be removed by pressure upon the boil. Walter Smith,1of Dublin, has described such a case, where the swelling upon theankle of a girl, twelve years old, moved to the elbow, and there dis-charged a white grub nearly an inch in length. Birdsall2 described aspecimen sent him from Gaboon, on the West Coast of Africa, inwhich two worms escaped from between the
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. fterthe ova are deposited by the insect, a painful swelling occurs whichmay change from one point to another. When suppuration is induced,the larvae can be removed by pressure upon the boil. Walter Smith,1of Dublin, has described such a case, where the swelling upon theankle of a girl, twelve years old, moved to the elbow, and there dis-charged a white grub nearly an inch in length. Birdsall2 described aspecimen sent him from Gaboon, on the West Coast of Africa, inwhich two worms escaped from between the middle and the ring fingersof one hand; another workman having had a similar accident occurupon the leg. The fly whose ova had been deposited in these twocases was said to attack the gorilla; and members of a native tribeengaged in capturing these animals were reported as being very com-monly troubled in the same way. The worms sent to Dr. Birdsallwere respectively one-fourth and one-half of an inch in length andabout one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Fig, 105. «SHBtt> Fig. QCstrus: a, the larva, natural size; b,some of the segments seen under a lens, andshowing the lines of minute projection ; c,and d, the terminal ends of the insect (afterAbraham). CL Larvre removed from the body of a the exac t size, after several days in alco-hol ; a, as seen from side; 6, as seen frombeneath. Abraham, of Dublin, also examined and reported upon a similarcase, the specimen having been sent to the editor of the London Med-ical Press and Circular, from Porfsalon, Letterkenny. Several specimens illustrating these accidents have been sent to the 1 See Report of Internat. Med. Congress, Arch, of Derm., January, 1882. 2 New York Medical Record, March 18, 1882, p. 298. PARASITIC AFFECTIONS. 775 author. The larvae represented in the subjoined sketch (Fig. 106)were removed from the body of an infant in Nebraska. The muscidce(flesh, house, stable, dung, and other flies) have unar
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