THE OCCURRENCE OF BOTHRÎOCEPHALES LIGULOIDES LT. Ißl 



P. S. — Sin^e the above note-^ were in type, we were favored I))' 

 Mr. K. Takaliaslii of the Metlh-al College with fjllowing inf )rinalionH, 

 whicli we will here add as : — • 



Case VII. — Boflir. lujuJoides from the Pije. — Tlie pntieiit was a glH, 

 eleven years old, native of Ko-aiki Village in tlie province of Küzuke. 

 In Spring of last year she suffered from ronjimctivitis. From 

 January (^f this year, the nj)per eye-lid of the left eye began to swell 

 and redden with intervals of rom])arative repose. Even during such 

 an interval, tlie eye-lid seemed to be somewhat thicker than usual. 

 On ]\Iarch IGth, during a school-exereise she felt pain in the e^'e, so 

 that she was compelled to return home. However the pain soon 

 subsided and the next morning she was able to attend the school. 

 On 19th a swelling' was noticed on the eve, "which was inATstiufated 

 by ]\Ir. Hagiwara, a physician in the town of Mayebashi. According 

 to him, the swelling was of the size of a small bean, was situated 

 on the eve-bulb beneath the coniuncti va, showed no siu'ns of infiam- 

 mation and could be shifted for a certain extent. On cutting the 

 eonjunctivîi open, a worm protruded itself. It was then drawn out 

 by means of a pincette, during which process the patient felt a slight 

 pain. It seems that the worm was orisfinallv situated in the reoicm 

 of the Fornix of the upper eye-lid but had changed its position so as 

 to come ])eneath the conjunctiva bulbi. 



The extracted worm, shown us by Takahashi, was about 2o mm. 

 long (in spirit). Without doubt it was only a part of the entire 

 worm. The greater ])art of the specimen was split lengthwise into 

 two parts. The liead-end was present. It had just the configuration 

 as represented in our %. 4 or 5^ but measuring only 2 nun. in breadth. 



