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at the anterior extremity, I ! suggested the denomination of 

 Plagiomonas urinaria. Blanchard regarded Trichomonas irregular is, 

 Slsb., as synonymous, and in accordance with this opinion he 

 recently 2 named the species Plagiomonas irregu- 

 lar is ( = Bo do urinarius, Kunstl. nee Hass). This 

 at the time and even now does not appear to me 

 to be justified, as Salisbury 3 found Trichomonas irre- 

 gularis not only in the urine, but also in the vagina 

 of the same person, and therefore a confusion with 

 Trichomonas vaginalis is quite possible. On the 

 other hand, Th. Barrois 4 considers Hassall's and 

 Kiinstler's Bodo urinarius to be identical, and the 

 latter not a parasite of man. He bases this opinion 

 on his own experience. In the freshly-passed urine 

 of a patient, a physician in Lille found a number 

 of flagellates, and Barrois confirmed their presence ; 

 however, as the urine was opaque, had an alkaline 

 reaction, and contained innumerable and various 

 bacteria in addition to the flagellates, Barrois doubted 

 the freshness of the material ; when, subsequently, 

 the urine of the same patient was examined im- 

 mediately after evacuation, no trace of flagellates 

 could be found ; of course the urine first examined 

 had not stood long, so that it must 

 be conjectured that the germs of 

 the flagellates were only present 

 periodically in the atmosphere of 

 the sick room. At all events this 

 observation demonstrates how care- 

 ful one must be in the judgment 

 of flagellates appearing in the secre- 

 tions and excretions of man. 



As, moreover, decomposition had 

 set in in the urine examined by 

 Kiinstler, and numbers of various 

 bacteria were present in addition 

 to the flagellates, Barrois does not 



FIG. 15. Bodo 

 urinarius, Kstlr. 

 (after Kiinstler). 



FIG. 1 6. Flagellata observed by 

 Barrois in the urine of a man (after 

 Barrois). 



1 Braun, M., Die thier. Par. d. Mensch., 2nd edition, 1895, P- Io8 - 



2 Blanchard, R., Mai. paras. . . . Paris, 1895, p. 691. 



3 Salisbury, " On the Parasitic Forms developed in Epithelial Cells of the Urine 

 and Genital Organs " (Amer. Journ. med. sc., 1868.) 



4 Barrois, Th., " Quelq. obs. au sujet du B. urin." (Kev. biol. nord. France, 1894-95, 

 vii., p. 165). 



