. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. sitic. Prognosis.—A large proportion of the cases remain latent for an indefi-nite period. Many of the cases of lymph scrotum and elephantiasis areprogressive, and the patient succumbs to exhaustion or intercurrent removal of an adult worm from the enlarged inguinal lymph-glands Fig. 303.—Microfilaria nocturna. 270 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. has been followed by the disappearance of the embryos from the two or more were present this result would not occur. 2. Filaria di
. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. sitic. Prognosis.—A large proportion of the cases remain latent for an indefi-nite period. Many of the cases of lymph scrotum and elephantiasis areprogressive, and the patient succumbs to exhaustion or intercurrent removal of an adult worm from the enlarged inguinal lymph-glands Fig. 303.—Microfilaria nocturna. 270 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. has been followed by the disappearance of the embryos from the two or more were present this result would not occur. 2. Filaria diurna. — This parasite closely resembles F. appears in the blood during the day only, or at night when the patientremains awake. Manson found the larvse in the blood of several negroesfrom Congo. The mangrove fly is supposed to be the intermediate loa is the adult form. 3. Filaria perstans.—The larva was discovered by Manson in found in the blood of Carib Indians sent from British Guiana twoforms of larval filarise differing in type, one closely resembling those of
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