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appearance of spirilla immediately before or shortly after death suggests that the initiatory 

 changes occur in the blood itself — Drs. Murchison and Bastain on the development of microphytes 

 in the system as a result of disease —Bacilli not detected in the earlier stages of diseases . 599 — 600 



I. The Evidence wMcJi has been adduced showing that the Vindence of Septinous Substances 

 is not dependent on Vegetable Life. — Facts showing that certain microphyte-free fluids will induce 

 disease — MM. Brauell, Bollinger, and Colin's experiments — Septinous fluids filtered through 

 porous porcelain, &c., not innocuous — Panum's researches — Richardson's and Bergmann's 

 researches — Exudation with septinous properties induced by purely chemical irritants, showing 



the paramount influence of the cells of the body itself 601 — 603 



II. The Protozoa which have been pound in the Blood. — Fermentation formerly 

 supposed to be induced by animalculse by Pasteur, &c 603 — 604 



A. Flagellated Organisms in the Blood of Jiealthy Rats. — The supposed absence of organisms 

 in the blood during health — Organisms in the blood of ordinary rats — Microscopical appearance 

 of the organisms during life — Appearance of preserved specimens— ^ Measurements — Action of 

 re-agents on the organisms — Kesult of application of interrupted current — Proportion and species 

 of rats aflEected — Classification of the organisms — Their resemblance to flagellated protozoa found 

 in intestine of a nematode — Probability of former observations of a like kind — The organisms 

 often found in the blood of rats of the same brood — Pathological bearing of the observation . 604 — 609 



B. Protozoa in the Blood of healthy Frogs, Deer, ^-c. — Lankester's undulina in frogs' blood 

 — Rattig on organisms in blood of frogs — Haematozoon of deer — Statements as to occurrence of 



" infusoires " in blood of man 609 — 611 



III. Helminthic H^ematozoa op Man and Animals. — A. Trematoid Heematozoa. — 

 Distomum haematobium 611 — 612 



B. Nematoid Hcematozoa of Animals. — Nematoid hsematozoa of frogs — Haematozoa of the 

 seal, of the whale, and of the carp — Haematozoa of birds — The haematozoon of the Indian crow 

 — Haematozoa of horses, &c. — Haematozoa of dogs — The mature parasites found associated with 

 embryo haematozoa of dogs — Filaria immitis — Filaria sanguinolenta — Ercolani's discovery of 

 mature nematodes in subcutaneous tissue of hasmatozoa-affected dogs 612 — 616 



C. Nematoid Hcematozoa of Man, — The first record of nematoid haematozoa in man — 

 Association of haematozoa with chyluria and naevoid elephantiasis — The question of the identity 

 of the embryo filariae of different countries — The haematozoa as urinary parasites — The urinary 

 oviparous helminths found by Salisbury — The urinary oviparous helminths found by Cobbold 616 — 620 



D. Changes undergone by the Embryos of Nematoid Hcematozoa when ingested by the 

 Mosquito. — Dr. Manson's investigations of the changes which haematozoa undergo in the mosquito 

 in China — Similar observations made in India — Changes undergone by the embryo filariae : The 

 first day : Second day : Third and fourth days : Fourth and fifth days — The subsequent history 



of the larva filariae— The varieties of nematoid haematozoa ingested by the mosquito . . 620 — 624 



E. The Mature Form of Filariu sanguinis-hominis. — Discovery of mature nematodes in the 

 tissues of man by Dr. Bancroft — The mature forms of Filaria sanguinis-hominis : male and 

 female — The male specimen — The female specimen — The ova and embryos — The translucent 

 caecal tube in which free embryos are enclosed — The thread-like tissue-parasites of Africa and 

 America and Australia — A correction — Haematozoa and Haematophytes in their relation to 

 disease 624—628 



Further Observations on Flagellated Organisms in the Blood of Animals. By 



Dr. T. R. Lewis. 1884. 



Flagellated Organisms in tlw Blood of Rats. — " Spirillum-fever " in Bombay in 1847 — 

 Transference of flagellated organisms from a horse to a dog — Two species of rats in which 

 they are found — Found by Dr. Griffith Evans in the blood of horses and camels — " Sxirra " a 



