19, 8 Maxwell: Filariasis in China 281 
his statement that one night he had a filarial attack and the 
next an ordinary quartan paroxysm. In no ease of filarial 
abscess of the limbs referred to in these lists was there any 
focus of infection to be discovered on the surface of the limb. 
ORCHITIS 
A great many diseases in times past were credited to malaria. 
Some of these seem to have been so considered on totally 
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inadequate grounds. In fact, the presence of malaria in a 
country has been held to account for almost any obscure disease 
in that country. While not denying that there may be a form 
of malarial orchitis, it is quite clear that in the region in which 
I have been working the majority of cases of orchitis are not 
malarial but filarial. In fact, I have never seen a case in which 
