Eleven miscellaneous papers on animal parasites / [Ch. Wardell Stiles and others].

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1902
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    of certain fish, as reported by von Nordmann, fully supports the view that such parasites paay occasionally cause diseased conditions in the eye. Bibliography.—The general works referred to in this article may be recognized from the authors' names and dates; in case of doubt, consult ;the Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon General's Library, or the card catalogue of the Zoological Laboratory, Bureau of Animal Industry, which is now being prepared for press as Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology. The titles of the articles in which the original observations were published are: Ammon, F. a. 1833.—Die angeborne Cataracta in pathologisch-anatomischer, in patliogenet- isclierund operativer Hinsicht <Ztschr. f. d. Ophth., Dresden, v. 3 (1), pp. 70-99. 1838.—Klinische Darstellungen der Krankheiten und Bildungsfehler des men- schlichen Auges der Angenlider und der Thriinenwerkzeuge nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen. 1. Theil. viii + 69 pp., 23 pis. fol. Berlin. 1841.—Idem. 3. Theil. viii-f 90 pp., 20 pis. fol. Berlin. GaSCHEIDT. 1833.—Die Entozoen des Auges < Ztschr. f. d. Ophtli., Dresden, v. 3 (4), pp. 405-462. VON Nordmann, Alexander. 1832.—Mikrographische Beitriige zur Naturgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere. 2. Heft, xviii + 150 pp., 10 pis. 4°. Berlin. A CASE OF yiNEGAR EEL (ANGUILLULA ACETI) INFECTION IN THE HUMAN BLADDER. By Cn. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D., Pathologist of Bureau of Animal Industry, AND W. AsHBY Frankland, M. D. [PlatelV, figures 6-13.] In November, 1900, one of us was called to-attend a young married woman professional^. During an examination of the urine, some minute worms were found which proved to be rhabditiform embryos. In order to exclude all possibility of accidental infection of the urine from external sources, a specimen was then taken with the catheter. In this sample numerous worms of all stages were found, and these were eventually determined as Anguillula aceti. This species is the ordinai-y vinegar worm. It belongs to the nema- todes, family Anguillulidse, which appears to have been established by Gervais & van Beneden in 1859. The most complete diagnosis of it yet written appeared in Bastian's important essay, published in 1866, and reads as follows: