OBSKI'.VATIONS ON FlI.AIlI.f:. 



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languid, spotted, and shrivelled looking. In one such specimen the 

 lash was quite visible by a low power. Many short fibres y^oth in 

 length were also visible — possibly the enclosing tube, of collapsed 

 embryos. 



" This morning the coagulum which had formed by last night in 

 fluid drawn the previous forenoon, had completely disappeared ; a 

 flocculent sediment lay in the glass, and in this great abundance of 

 F. S. H. 



" May 11th. — Scrotum removed under chloroform — it Aveighed 

 l^lb. ; there was considerable bleeding and also escape of lymph 

 from two dilated lymphatics, one on either side just external to the 

 cords ; by pressing firmly on the enlarged inguinal glands lymph 

 could be made to well up from these two points. 



" Scrotum placed in spirit and sent to Dr. Cobbold. 



** The patient recovered perfectly from the operation. Being 

 anxious to ascertain if I might assure you that the scrotum sent 

 contained the parents of the embryos I had found in the blood, I 

 have kept this man under daily observation since the operation. 

 But unless the examination of the blood was made during the after- 

 noon, it has invariably been found to swarm with embryos. The 

 inference from this is that there are parent F. Bancrofti in the 

 patient still, and that probably you will fail to find any in the 

 scrotum, though you will undoubtedly come across many embryos, 

 especially if you search the sediment of the spirit. 



" The following is the record of the daily examination of a drop 

 of blood placed between two slides : — 



