JhsilKI,!, VNI'.OUS NoTKS 

 IIY 



Till'. DntKrTon 



H^EMATOZOA 



One has again to record the presence of Hwmoproteus (Halteridia) in the blood of 



birds. Those in which they have been found since the date of the last record are — 



Dendroci/ijHa luduata^the whistling teal ) 



^, .,.' . , , i, 111 ( On the Upper White Nile. 



harctdiormg metanota — the comb duck ... J 



Ardetta inelanota — the little bittern ... by Captain Fry in specimen from Upper 



Blue Nile. 



Mr. .\. Ij. Jiutler has again kindly named the birds for us. Human pathology has, 

 however, claimed so much time that the study of the hffimatozoa of birds and the lower 

 animals has perforce been abandoned to a large extent. 



X Bodies in Hu.man Blood* 

 Plate XXII., fig. 1 



As noted on page 24 of our First Review Supplement these curious bodies had once 

 been noted in the blood of a sick dog in Khartoum. 



On November 23, 1910, I received the following report, accompanied by the blood 

 films mentioned, from Dr. Nicola Maloiif, of the Sudan Medical Department, one of the 

 Medical Officers in Omdurman, who, when in Khartoum, had been diligent in his 

 attendance at the laboratories. 



" I am sending you 4 slides of blood from a patient under my care who is suffering 

 from a very interesting disease, which I miglit call I'rli'caria nocturna. The disease is 

 of 4 months standing ; it appeared at Kamlin. The patient is a white lady about 

 Description of 18 years old, married, and is nursing a child, 1 year old ; the child is very healthy. 

 The case presents the following symptoms: — Every evening, about 7 p.m., flat, solid, 

 more or less elevated wheals, irregular in size and shape begin to appear all over the 

 body. These wheals disappear and others appear till the early morning, when the eruption 

 begins to diminish, and, about sun-rise, nothing is left and the patient looks normal, like 

 any other person. The eruption is accompanied by a severe itching and burning sensation ; 

 there is no fever and no disturbance of any of the systems of the body. The lady lived 

 in Kamlin for the last two years. 



" The slides are not fixed. Will you kindly examine them for anything you might 

 think as a cause ? If more slides are required or any other information is necessary, 

 I will be very glad to help." 



Enquiry elicited the fact that at no time had there been any fever. 



In one of the films I found typical X bodies in considerable numbers, free and 

 occasionally lying on the red cells. A fairly common form was the small body (a) which 

 Horrocks and Howell' describe as being about one-eighth the size of a red corpuscle, 

 spherical in form and consisting of a faint capsule with a circular centre staining deep 



• Rt- prod need liy kind permi8.«ion of the Editor, from the Lancet of February 4, 1911. 



' Horroeks, W. H., and Howell, H. A. L. (April, 1908), " X bodies found in the Blood of Hnmnn Beinp.< and 

 Animals." ,/uiirn'il i>f Ihf lluijal Arum Medical Curps, Vol. X., No. 4. 



