Cardiac failure attributable to malignant disease is generally accepted as being caused either by lymphangitis carcinomatosa or by impaction of tumour emboli in the pulmonary vascular bed. Standard textbooks (Wood, 1956; Anderson, 1961) make no mention of other cardiac lesions which may occur in malignancy and which may be responsible for the development of heart failure. There are some less we...

nf +i reniove a disability due to the heaviness the elephantoid limb (Chatterji, loc. cit). ^ evertheless, there is also a feeling that amputaJ!on the affected limb is a measure of treatment of filariasis. Maitland (1891) says that when the health of the patient is harassed by constantly recurring attacks of inflammation, the lnjib must be amputated This seems to indicate that amputation would ...

Th? main object of this paper is to put before the readers: (1) the various points of interest with regard to the life-history, pathogenicity of filaria bancrofti, and the etiology of elephantiasis, lymphangitis, etc., (2) the several problems, so far solved, and those yet to be solved, in connection with the above, (3) to discuss certain features that are peculiar to filarial diseases, and als...