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present case, we may mention, for the sake of clearing the ground, that 

 numerous specimens of anchylostoma duodenale were found in the 

 small intestine ; the mesenteric glands were swollen, in size from a 

 pea to a walnut, hard and firm, and showed microscopically a marked 

 increase of the connective tissue, wide bands of well-formed fibres, and 

 also more delicate fibrils permeating the lymphoid tissue. Certain of 



Fig. 3. — Huge fibroma on serous coat of ascending colon. 



these glands contained a number of bilharzial ova, but others contained 

 none. Here again we come upon an unusual observation — ova are 

 not as a rule recognised as being present in the lymphatic glands ; 

 Kartulis found them, however, and mentions the fact in his paper of 

 1885, and again in 1899. 



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