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See also Leuckart, ( Die Mensch. Par./ Bd ii, s. 411). Dr 

 Wucherer also forwarded a number of specimens to Dr Weber, 

 who published a brief account of them with excellent figures 

 ('Path. Soc. Trans./ vol. xviii, 1867, p. 274). As mentioned 

 in the text of his memoir (s. 394), Dr Wucherer also transmitted 

 some strongyloids to myself. (< The publication of my observa- 

 tions," adds Dr Wucherer (' Gazeta Medica da Bahia/ 1866, 

 p. 27 et seq.), " had a result in that Dr J. R. de Moura, of 

 Thersepolis, in the province of Rio de Janeiro, sought for Anchy- 

 lostomes in the bodies of tropical anaemics (Hypoamikern) . He 

 at once found these parasites, as stated in the same journal (for 

 1866, p. 132). As occurred to myself, he saw no enduring 

 results from the application of the remedies which appeared 

 to be called for, whilst he well knew that unprofessional persons 

 (Nichtarzte) succeeded in obtaining marked results by the 

 exhibition of the pulp of the Gammeleira (Ficus doliaria). The 

 anthelmintic action of this remedy was also unknown to him/' 

 Dr. Wucherer then records how his discovery of these entozoa 

 was announced by Dr Jobini to the Rio academy, and how Dr 

 Moura's observations were subsequently communicated, adding 

 remarks upon the interesting discussion that followed. The 

 general opinion was that the Anchylostomata were not the 

 primary and necessary cause of this tropical anaemia, but rather 

 a co-operating agent in its production. Against this view Dr 

 Wucherer afterwards very properly protested ('Gazeta/ Jan. 15th, 

 1868). In the mean time, says our author, "Dr le Roy de 

 Mericourt, prompted by my first communication, had invited 

 the physicians of the French colony to seek for Anchylostomes. 

 Drs Monestier and Grenet, at Mayotta (one of the Comoro Isles, 

 which lies about 12 S. lat. to the north-east of Madagascar), 

 ascertained the presence of entozoa in hypoaemics. Dr Grenet 

 sent the duodenum and a portion of the jejunum of an hypo- 

 gemic corpse to Le Roy de Mericourt, who compared the Anchy- 

 lostomes with Davaine's description, and recognised them as 

 examples of A. duodenale" 



" In the year 1868 Dr Rion Kerangel found Anchylostomes in 

 the bodies of hypoaemics in Cayenne. Thus, the occurrence of 

 Anchylostomes in hypoaemics has been authenticated by Pruner, 

 Bilharz, and Griesinger, in Egypt ; by myself, Dr Moura, 

 Dr Tourinho, and other physicians, in Brazil ; by Monestier and 

 Grenet, in the Comoros ; and by Rion Kerangel in Cayenne. 

 It thus also appears, from the wide separation of these several 



