What Should the General Practitioner Know about Filariasis

wise healthy and beautiful towns and villages dreadfully unhealthy. As an observer from the West Coast in South India, I may mention Mangalore in South Canara, Ponnani in Malabar, Mattancheri in Cochin and Sherthali in Travancore, as a few examples of such places where people with ' big legs' or ' indecently hung' may be seen in disgusting proportions not to speak of the sufferers who go down with periodical attacks of lymphangitis or other lisabling manifestations of filariasis. This article is based, mainly, on my own modest work both in the laboratory and outside as a practising physician. I do not claim to