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

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1902
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    K4. '^'^'J^KAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. t r o:«:u; Case IV. Reported at a Kyoto Medical Society meeting by S Saito Th. , o.- . was a man (son of a farmer in Sayama Village near Kvfin; A ^ that .e conM discharge B^Sd^tl fel^^^^^^^^^^ eat^ons at the permeum. This state continued until October 14, 1887 when whiJe uithr™! O 'T'-'' -ine, amoving vvonn protruded it^eTf rom t e urethia. Mr. Ogmo, a physician of the village, carefully pulled it out mitil it tore off, leaving a part of the body behind. The piece obtained then measni^ 2 fee^L ength, about 6 mm. at the broadest and about 1.5 mm. at the narrowes part For two days afterwards the patient felt pain in passing urine, which mZ^t'c mtaired blood. The frequent but scanty discharge of urine continued longer. When Saito examined him, some time after, the urine was transparent and amber-colored without precipitate or other abnormahty. We do not know what ha« since become of [he tl:::^:;-^}- ^'^^ urination.-i^ Case V. Observed by Mr. Toyodain Kyoto. The patient was a citizen of Osaka 42 years old. On the morning of May 8, 1884, he began to discharge blood with urine and m the afternoon a white worm appeared fron. the urethra while urinat ng Toyoda was immediately called for. He succeeded in pulling out the entire worm This measured about 364 mm. in length and about 12 mm. in breadth. Put in a vessel (with water?) it continued to contract and stretch and move about for nearly two hours. It was then put into glycerine for preservation. As the worm was new to Toyoda, he tried various means to identify it, but in Ya\n.~Ijinia & Ifuratn, 1888 f)' loo. ' Case VI. Communicated to Ijima & Murata by R. Sato, of Utsunomiya The patient was a young man, 17 years of age (1883), living at Kanazawa, in the province ot Kaga. The affected place was the region of the inner angle of the left eye At thisplace not only the eyelids but also a part of the conjunctiva around the Plica semilunaris was in a state of severe inflammation. At a spot just over the Caruncula lachrymahs Sato observed a whitish spot which seemed to protrude itself This was taken hold of by a pincette and pulled out, when it proved to be the worm in ques- tion.—ijiwza & Murata, 1888, p. 164. Case VIT. Reported with Case IV at a Kyoto Medical Society meeting by S. Saito The patient was a girl, 15 years old, living at or near Kvoto. On ]\Iarcli 10 1875 a vesicle-like protuberance forme<l itself, without any iissignable cause, on the'whit^ of the left eye, midway between the cornea and the outer angle. Three days after a physician, Mr. Shingu, examined and found it to be about of the size of ti.c li]) of little finger, soft and white, somewhat resembling cod ovarv in appearance. In two hours he observed an elongated, macaroni-like body, which, on being slowly pulled out, was found to be a worm. Its length was 120 nmi.; breadth, 3 to 6 mm.—Ijima t(L- Murata, 1888, p. 155. Case VIII. Under the care of Mr. S. Nagao, an army medical officer. The patient was a native of Toyama, in the Provini^e of ]':tchiu. In the sunnner of iiis fifteenth year of age that part of the right leg just above the knee joint on the inner