On the endemic haematuria of hot climates caused by the presence of bilharzia haematobia / by F.H.H. Guillemard.

  • Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933.
Date:
1882
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Credit: On the endemic haematuria of hot climates caused by the presence of bilharzia haematobia / by F.H.H. Guillemard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Geogra- phical range of the Bilharzia. Arabia. Egypt. West Africa. Cape Colony. the water, and I cannot help regarding this habit as being in some way or other connected with the acquiring of the disease. If it be so, we must reject the theory of infection by the ingestion of the animal in an immature state in the bodies of fish or minute molluscs, and fall back on that of the direct passage of the parasite, probably in the cercaria stage, into the skin or natural apertures of the body. The exact geographical range of the Bilharzia is most difficult to define. I think, however, that I am right in saying that the actual proof of the existence of this animal in cases of hmmaturia has f as yet only been evidenced in patients from the African Continent and from Arabia; but that there | is a strong probability of its existence in other countries I hope presently to show. In Africa it is chiefly abundant in Egypt and in various localities in the southern part of the continent. My own knowledge of the West Coast is not sufficient forf me to speak with certainty, but from information I received from a medical gentleman who had re- sided for some time in several of the colonies on that coast, I am inclined to believe in its existence there. South Africa requires a more detailed con- sideration. I am unaware of any cases having been recorded as originating in the western provinces, but along the south-eastern seaboard it is a tolerablyj
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