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cursions.  We  stayed  at  a  boarding  house  in 
the  rúa  Conde  Bomfim. 
15  VIII.  Using  the  Prefect’s  motor-car, 
we  visited  the  slaughter-house  where  we 
gathered  information  about  parasites  and 
diseases  of  cattle.  We  obtained  none 
concerning  Trernatodes,  nor  did  our  exa¬ 
minations  give  any  result.  A  bullock 
come  from  the  direction  of  Bahia,  was 
said  to  suffer  from  “mal  triste”.  After 
being  killed,  it  showed  countless  hemor¬ 
rhages  in  the  intestine,  gall-bladder  and  me¬ 
sentery,  also  hemorrhagic  nephritis,  but  the 
spleen  was  small.  Macroscopical  and  cultural 
examination  showed  Bacillus  anthracis. 
We  also  worked  in  the  laboratory.  Exami¬ 
nation  of  numerous  Planorbis  from  Bahia 
and  Aracajú  failed  to  reveal  any  cercariae. 
16  VIII  We  visited  the  Hospital  D. 
Pedro  II,  where  we  saw  many  patients,  sus¬ 
pected  of  schistosomatosis  or  suffering  from 
malaria,  anemia,  tuberculosis,  heart  disease 
etc.  and  left  many  small  tin  boxes  for 
samples  of  feces.  Afterwaids  we  went  to  the 
isolating  hospital  and  saw  a  few  cases  of  bu¬ 
bonic  pest  and  some  other  patients,  from  whom 
we  ordered  samples  for  examination.  Dr. 
PENNA  and  our  servants  found  eggs  of 
Schistosomum  in  specimens  furnished  by 
five  pupils  of  the  school. 
17  VIII.  In  the  morning  we  worked  in 
the  laboratory;  in  the  afternoon  the  director 
of  the  sanitary  service  took  us  to  the  Hos¬ 
pital  for  ulcers  where  we  found  more  than 
a  thousand  patients,  almost  all  of  them  with 
ulcers,  either  common,  or  due  to  syphilis, 
ankylostomiasis  or  fuso-spirillar  infection. 
Cases  of  leishmaniosis  were  rare  or  absent, 
as  far  as  we  could  judge  from  mere  sight. 
We  ordered  some  specimens  and  combined 
a  day  for  working  at  the  Hospital.  From 
there,  we  went  to  the  leper  hospital. 
18  VIII.  At  the  school  we  were  infor¬ 
med  that  the  director  of  the  sanitary  service 
was  prevented  from  accompanying  us,  so 
we  resolved  to  visit  the  veterinary  school, 
established  in  Olinda  by  the  order  of 
St.  Benedict.  We  saw  the  convent  rich 
in  interesting  historical  relics  and  memories 
and  the  garden  with  its  secular  trees,  also 
the  school  and  the  hospital  There  we  found  a 
horse  with  osteomalacia  and  a  dog  with 
filariosis  and  serohemorrhagic  peritonitis . 
19  VIII.  Accepting  an  invitation  from  the 
Director,  Mr.  FELICIANO  DA  ROCHA,  we 
visited  the  agricultural  school  in  Socorro, 
where  we  saw  interesting  culture  plants  and 
gathered  several  insects  as  well  as  land  and 
fresh  water  shells.  Among  them  were  a  Physa 
and  a  small  Planorbis ,  which  I  considered 
as  a  young  and  little  pigmented  specimen  of  PL 
centimetralis  LUTZ.  They  were  not  infected. 
20  VIII.  We  visited  the  lunatic  asylum 
where  I  failed  to  find  any  indications  of  pel¬ 
lagra.  We  saw  cases  of  ankylostomiasis,  sca¬ 
bies,  and  an  ulcer  with  abundant  spirillae 
and  spindle-shaped  bacilli.  There  were  some 
cases  of  infantilism ,  but  we  noticed  the  ab¬ 
sence  of  goitre. 
20  VIII.  In  the  Hospital  for  Ulcers  we 
examined  20  cases  of  untreated  ulcers,  many 
of  the  patients  showing  signs  of  ankylosto¬ 
miasis.  Many  of  the  ulcers  were  due  to  sy¬ 
philis,  as  shown  by  the  bone  lesions,  which 
complicated  them  ;  some  gave  the  impres¬ 
sion  of  common  ulcers  with  few  bacteria. 
We  failed  to  find  a  case  of  fuso-spirillar 
ulcer  or  of  leishmaniosis  but  found  2  typical 
cases  of  yaw's  (bouba). 
From  Socorro  we  received  living  spe¬ 
cimens  of  Pseudolfersia  meleagridis.  a  pupipa- 
rous  fly,  common  on  the  turkey  in  Pernam¬ 
buco;  blood  slides  of  turkeys  did  not  reveal 
any  blood  parasites. 
In  the  material  from  the  lunatic  asylum 
and  the  hospital  for  ulcers,  we  discovered  2 
specimens  with  eggs  of  Schistosomum  ;  one 
of  them  was  from  a  patient  whose  infection 
was  refered  to  Palmares. 
In  some  pools  near  Afogados  one  of 
the  servants  found  Planorbis  melleus  LUTZ 
and  larvae  of  Mansonia. 
22  VIII.  In  the  morning  we  worked  in 
the  laboratory,  and  found  eggs  with  late¬ 
ral  spine  in  two  more  samples,  sent  from 
the  General  Hospital.  In  the  afternoon  we 
made  an  excursion  to  Dous  Irmãos  where 
we  examined  a  pond  with  aquatic  vegetation, 
