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them. Dr. Salter reported a case of chyluria which had recovered 

 subsequently to an attack of typhoid fever ; and Dr. Dodds 

 mentioned a case in which cerebral symptoms intervened. Dr. 

 Peter Bancroft related a case in which a number of adult worms 

 were found in a tumour removed from the groin, and remarked 

 that the death of a patient suffering from lilariasis occurs some- 

 times immediately after the death of the worms. 



In 1909 Maclean (A.M.G., 1909, p. 444) mentioned that out of 

 600 consecutive admissions to the Brisbane General Hospital 1& 

 per cent, had filariae in the blood. In 1909 17 per cent, out of 

 200 cases were found to be affected, and a month later there were- 

 16 per cent. In 1910 three articles appeared in the A.M.G. on 

 the subject. Jackson's ( A.M.G. , 1910, p. 231) communication is 

 mainly historical, and in it he gives a summary of earlier literature 

 referring to the parasite in Queensland. P. Bancroft (p. 233) and 

 Maclean (p. 234) pubhshed some notes on the disease. Other 

 references to the occurrence of filariasis in Australia are as follow : — 



Colledge, Proc. Roy. Soc. O'land, XV, 1900, p. 127 (Queens- 

 land). 



Bancroft, Jour. Trop. Med. Lond., 1899-1900, II, pp. 91, 149; 

 1901, p. 822 (Queensland). 



Manson & Shiplev, in Allbutt & Rolleston's Svst. Med., II, 



part ii, p. 933, 936 (Queensland). 

 Cleland, Jour. West. Austr. Nat. Hist. Soc, June, 1906- 



(Queensland — North-West Austr. ?) ; Jour. Trop. Med. 



Hyg., 1909, XII, p. 348 (Queensland) ; Bull. 7-9 Dept. 



State Med. & Publ. Health, West Austr.. 1908. p. 22 



(West Austr.). 



Fiilleborn & Rodenwaldt, " Filarien " in Real. Encyclopadie- 

 d. Gesamt Heilk., Aufl. 4, p. 55-64 (Queensland). 



Blanchard, Arch d. Parasitol, III, 1900, p. 285 (Queensland). 



Johnston, Agric. Gaz. N.S. Wales, XX, 1909, p. 583 ; Rec. 

 Austr. Mus., VII, 1909, p. 336 ; A.M.G., 1909, p. 479 

 (Queensland, N.S.W., S. Australia, W. Australia). 



Looss, in Mense's " Handb. d. Tropenkr.," I', 1905, p. 162. 



Braun, " Animal Parasites of Man," 1906, pp. 289-291 

 (Queensland). 



9. Filaria niedinensis Velsch {=Dractinadus medinensis). 

 The only instance in which this worm is recorded as having been 

 found in Australia occurred in an officer on board a ship in Hobson's 

 Bay in 1860. The case was reported by MacGilKvrav (A.M.J., 

 Vol. 5, p. 172). 



10. Filaria loa Guyot {=Loa loa). In 1874 Tassell (A.M.J,, 

 Vol. 19, 1874, p. 33) removed from the eye of a middle-aged man 

 a worm about H in. long, which he had seen wriggling over the 



