Human parasites: a manual of reference to all the known species of entozoa and ectozoa which (excluding the microphytic, confervoid, and simple sarcodic organisms) are found infesting man / by T. Spencer Cobbold.

  • Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Human parasites: a manual of reference to all the known species of entozoa and ectozoa which (excluding the microphytic, confervoid, and simple sarcodic organisms) are found infesting man / by T. Spencer Cobbold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Marcli, 1879; Fayrer, Sir J., On Elephan- tiasis, Lancet, 1879, p. 433; in Med. Times and Gaz., Dec, 1877, p. 688; see a paper on tlie Eelation of Filaria s. h. to Endemic Diseases of India (in tlie above journals for 1879), and also in La Clinica Yeterinaria for Marcli, 1880, p. 115; Santos, F. dos, in Gaz. Med. daBaHafor Marcli, 1877; Moura, J. de, These de Concours, 1877; Myers, Dr. W., Observations on Filaria sanguinis homi- nis in Soutk Formosa, from Customs Gazette, in Med. Times and Gazette for Jan. 7tl], 1882, p. 9; see also remarks by myself, in a paper rep. in Lancet for Jan. Mtb, 1882, p. .64; Mackenzie, Dr. S., in Lancet, 1881, vol. ii, p. 722, and in 1882, vol. i, p. 836; also in Brit. Med. Journ., May, 1882, p. 740; Sonsino, in Lancet for May, 1882, p. 825. Considering the importance of the new parasite {Filaria Bancrofti), I thought it advisable to devote more space than usual to its literature. The human strongyloids are all of them well defined species, and they play ahnost as impor- tant a role in the production of endemic disorders as do the Filariae themselves. In a general sense, the Guinea-worm may be spoken of as a Filaria, but, for reasons given in my introductory treatise and elsewhere, I prefer to consider this parasite as