Further Observations on the Filaria Sanguinis Hominis in South Formosa
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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 conviction as to the absence of the Filaria Sanguinis Hominis from this island, and that this is, in all probability, attributable to the non-existence
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Observations on Filaria Sanguinis Hominis in South Formosa *Published in Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Gazette, Medical Reports, Twenty-first issue.
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