BACKGROUND Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a so-called neglected tropical disease, currently overshadowed by higher-profile efforts to address malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Despite recent successes in arresting transmission, some 40 million people who already have the disease have been largely neglected. This study aims to increase understanding of how this vulnerable, neglected group can b...

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 ...

A 65-year-old man presented in Beira Central Hospital, Mozambique, with a right scrotal mass (diameter 80 x 80 cm), evolved over 15 years. The patient could barely move, and his weight at admission was 142 kg (Fig 1A and 1B). History of previous diseases was unremarkable, his general condition was good, and he had normal vital parameters. Physical examination showed wrinkled and thickened scrot...

Foolsauee, a Hindu female, aged 24 years, presented herself at the Julpigoree Dispensary on the 11th August 1872, for the purpose of having an enormous tumour that had developed within the last 6 years removed. She had been brought up from puberty as a prostitute, and had suffered both from syphilis and gonorrhoea. Has never borne children. Up till about three months before admission her menses...