Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
- Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
- Date:
- 1830-1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![the abdomen and chest, behind the peritoneum or pleura, in the aspera arteria, or in the cavity of the eye. 169. Filaria papillosa. A portion of the lung of a horse; one of the bronchial tubes is laid open, and a number of this species of Filaria are exposed, coiled up and inter- woven together. 169A. The eye of a horse laid open, exposing a Filaria papillosa; [which had bred there and occasioned dropsy of the cavity, with absorp- tion of the hyaloid membrane and retina. The choroid has, become thick and tough, and slightly granular on its central aspect: on a close in- spection it appears to be lined by a thin layer of cellular membrane. A partition of dense cellular membrane, separable into laminae, stretches across the cavity of the eye behind the lens ; the capsulapropria of which has also undergone morbid thickening and opacity. In the Synopsis Entozoorum a case is noticed by Rudolphi, of a Filaria papillosa in the right eye of a horse, where its lively motions were observed for some time: the sight was not wholly lost, but the cornea was covered with small opake spots, the lens and its capsule were destroyed, and the whole eye appeared to be filled with a nebulous humour.] Donor, Prof. Coleman, 1826. 170. Filaria Macropi majoris. {Sp. dub.) Filaria of the Kangaroo. Two specimens of this species, between four and five inches in length and a line in thickness, of a yellow colour, and so transparent as to permit two spiral vessels (oviducts ?) and a straight tube (digestive canal ?) to be plainly seen. Hab. Worms found alive within the capsular ligament of the knee-joint of the Kangaroo written on the bottle. 171. Filaria Apis terrestris. [Sp. dub.) Filaria of the Humble-bee. Hab. In the cavity of the abdomen of the humble-bee. 172. A Humble-bee laid open to show Filariae in the abdominal cavity. Mr. Hunter has the following note respecting this species; Of the animal that breeds in the humble bee:—' In many I have found in their abdomen what I suspect to be of the kind, but of a particular kind, some of which are very small, only to be distinctly seen by a magnifying glass.'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21296789_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
