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28. Dr. Bachelor reported a year later (1881) the case of a 

 white woman, a missionary near Gaboon, from whom at different 

 times three such worms were removed. He also confirms the 

 record (case 25) that Dr. Nassau, who was frequently affected, 

 '*had one in the areolar tissue between the thumb and index 

 finger." 



29. Dr. Falkenstein sent Leuckart from the Loango coast a 

 specimen of this worm from the eye of a European, which was 

 determined and reported as a species clearly distinct from the 

 Guinea worm (Leuckart, 1881). 



30. Dr. Lota, a French physician in Gaboon, experienced con- 

 junctivitis after his return to France, and on careful examina- 

 tion saw such a worm beneath the conjunctiva. He noted its 

 movements and demonstrated the case to several colleagues ; but 

 the worm disappeared before removal. His eyesi'ght was not 

 impaired. The case is chronicled by Terrin, 1884. 



31. Mrs. , missionary at Benita, near Gaboon, had at in- 

 tervals felt and seen such worms. She had one removed in 

 February, 1889, at Basel, Switzerland, from the left upper eye- 

 lid, one in November, 1889, at Bridgeport, Conn., from the right 

 upper eyelid; one in February, 1890, at Clifton Springs, N. Y., 

 from beneath the skin of the back ; and in July, 1890, one broke 

 in removing it from the right upper eyelid. She says the worm is 

 common in Benita and all the natives have them, and the author 

 adds : "So far as I have been able to obtain evidence from the 

 missionaries themselves, the filariae are more common in the 

 cellular tissue than in the eyeball. From the literature we should 

 infer the opposite." The worm was removed and the case 

 reported in 1890 by Dr. F. M. Wilson of Bridgeport, Conn. 



32. One other missionary at Benita had such worms remov-ed. 

 The fact is chronicled by Wilson (1890) on the direct testimony 

 of his patient of case 31. 



33. An infant negress from the Congo had a worm in the 

 anterior chamber of the eye. It was reported by Coppez (1894), 

 van Duyse (1895), Gauthier (1895), and Lacompte (1894). 

 When extracted by the latter it was dead. 



34. An English woman who had lived eight years in Old Cal- 

 abar felt the parasite a month after her return to England, but 



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