The diseases of China : including Formosa and Korea . ^ # S ^^ a c - ^^ ? ^ o I, ^ llo rt uo -^ ^ O a 5fi a, d ^ u o S -- ^ ? O t- I I aj 71 A-T u + — ? D rt o y 1 :j C ^ c r 70 fi, j: -a S -S >« * ^ £ ?, i 5 =; )t7-^ <5 ^^^ arjt^pijf #^;- ^ f (jL^^U-^- -7^1 /;r:rfrr. ELEPR-^NTOID FEVER. I45 province less than loo miles north-west of Amoy, Maxwell reports thedisease to be practically absent. Symptoms.—It should be clearly understood that the Filaria ban-crofli does not of itself cause either disease or inconvenience to its nightly discharge of embryos into the blood stream does
The diseases of China : including Formosa and Korea . ^ # S ^^ a c - ^^ ? ^ o I, ^ llo rt uo -^ ^ O a 5fi a, d ^ u o S -- ^ ? O t- I I aj 71 A-T u + — ? D rt o y 1 :j C ^ c r 70 fi, j: -a S -S >« * ^ £ ?, i 5 =; )t7-^ <5 ^^^ arjt^pijf #^;- ^ f (jL^^U-^- -7^1 /;r:rfrr. ELEPR-^NTOID FEVER. I45 province less than loo miles north-west of Amoy, Maxwell reports thedisease to be practically absent. Symptoms.—It should be clearly understood that the Filaria ban-crofli does not of itself cause either disease or inconvenience to its nightly discharge of embryos into the blood stream does not appearto affect the patient in any way whatever. Indeed it would seem that itis only owing to injury to the parent worms that diseases occur in thehosts. The affection especially associated with the parasite is elephantiasisarabum, but in the victims of this disease micro-filarias are seldom foundin the blood. Hence the cj^uestion has been raised whether we have anyright to include elephantiasis in filarial diseases. Considerabledispute still rages over this point. The reasons in fa\our of the associationof these two conditions seem, however, to us to be sufficiently most important arguments in favour of the supposition are: 1. The close geograp
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