FILARIA SANGUINIS HOMINIS AND CHYLURIA.

Some Remarks on the Relation of Filaria Sanguinis Hominis to Chyluria and Other Lymphoid Diseases

By Surgeon G. C. Roy, M.IX, F.R.C.S., Civil Surgeon, Beerbhoom. Chyluria is essentially a tropical disease. An analysis of the cases recorded in the Lancet will show that the subjects of it were, at one time 01* other of their lives, residents in a tropical climate, whence they probably carried with thein the germ of the disease. Even in the tropics its occurrence however is not frequent, inasm...

Further Observations on the Filaria Sanguinis Hominis in South Formosa

During the four years that have elapsed since the publication of my last paper* on this subject, I have from time to time been engaged in making the further observations which I now venture to record, and simultaneously have lost no opportunity of re-investigating those already communicated, aided in the latter by the invaluable criticisms my former paper elicited. I can only re-affirm my convi...

Observations on Filaria Sanguinis Hominis in South Formosa *Published in Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Gazette, Medical Reports, Twenty-first issue.

On taking charge of the Native Hospital at Takow in 1879, Dr. Myers began at once to examine cases of filaria disease, in order to investigate, and if possible confirm the discoveries and observations made by Dr. Manson of Amoy. His object was :? 1. To observe the proportion of filaria-infected patients in relation to the whole number of admissions to hospital, noting further what external mani...

Remarks on Varix Lymphaticus or Nævoid Elephantiasis

Officiating Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy and Clinical Surgery, Calcutta Medical College, and Second Surgeon, Medical College Hospital. The following case, which recently came under my observation; illustrates a peculiar form of scrotal disease of not infrequent occurrence in India, to which Dr. T. Lewis has added a new interest by the discovery of the filaria sanguinis hominis ...

Milk Treatment of Chyluria