286 Account of a Filaria in a Horse’s E'ye. 
small forceps. In a second case the conjunctiva was more in- 
flamed, and the patient refused to submit to an operation. In 
Blot’s case above-mentioned, the worms were between the con- 
junctiva and the cornea, around and across which they traversed, 
producing stinging pains and nervous symptoms. ‘The patient, 
an African negress, was unable to tell where she came from, or 
whether her fellow-couniry people were subject to similar affec- 
tions. The Cystericus cellulosa has also often been observed in 
the human eye, of which there is a case in the London Medical 
‘Gazette for Aug. 1833, where one was seen in the eye of a little 
girl six years old, under the conjunctiva eyeting on the sclerotica, 
and perfect in all its parts. 
The existence of Filaria in the eyes of horses in the East In- 
dies, is of frequent occurrence, as may be seen by consulting an 
article inthe Hdinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal tor Jan. 
Bremser states that he saw three worms in the anterior 
chamber of the eye of a horse at the Veterinary School of Vien- 
na, in 1813. In the Bulletin des Sciences Medicales for Feb. 
1826, it is stated that Dequilleme saw several of these animals in 
the eye of a cow, and the case“was published by Gohier, a vet- 
erinary teacher, in his memoirs. In the report of the proceedings 
of the Veterinary School at Lyons, in 1822, there is a case in 
which a knot of worms was seen in the eye of a mule. Some 
of these were extracted; no inflammation followed the operation, 
- but’ a violent nervous apitstion of the head and a turning of it to 
the left side, took place. In the same journal. mention is made of 
a memoir read before the Medical Society of Calcutta, in which 
the writer states that the Strongylus armatus minor of Rudolphi, 
and the Filaria papillosa are frequently found in the eyes of horses 
in India, but much more so in the cellular membrane, particularly 
about the loins. The writer maintains that they make their way 
into the blood-vessels, and through them into the eye. Treutler 
says that he has seen the Strongylus armatus in aneurisms of the 
mesenteric artery of the horse, and Dr. Kennedy, in the Edin- 
- burgh Phil. Transactions, Soa etbes a worm which he calls Asca- 
ris pellucidus, but which was doubtless the Filaria papillosa, 
48 being common in the eyes of horses in the east. A common 
of these worms in the muscles of the loins is mais of 
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