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69. Dr. F. N. G. Starr of Toronto, Canada, removed a filaria, 

 probably F. loa, from a female patient who had been a mission- 

 ary on the West Coast of Africa and had returned to Canada on 

 account of ill health. The worm was taken from the skin above 

 the manubrium sterni. The specimen was shown at a meeting 

 of the Toronto Pathological Society about ten years ago. The 

 case was briefly noted by Primrose (1903) and its data appear 

 in full in the present paper (p. 5). Dr. Starr's observations 

 are apparently the first made by a physician on the movement of 

 such a parasite in the body outside of the region of the eye. 



70. Dr. Habershon ( 1904) records from Yakusu, Congo river, 

 that in Mr. K. S., afflicted with Calabar swelHngs, a Loa was 

 seen to cross the conjunctiva. 



71. Dr. Habershon (1904) also adds that the same conditions 

 were observed in a native. 



y2. Dr. D. Argyll Robertson says that his patient suffered 

 from Calabar swellings and noticed worms {F. loa) in her side, 

 left shoulder, under the skin of both hands, under the abdominal 

 wall, and in her right breast. The parasites were successfully 

 extracted from the last two situations. The record was pub- 

 lished in Habershon, 1904. 



y^t- Dr. Robertson also records the case of another English 

 woman from Old Calabar in whom F. loa was seen under the 

 conjunctiva wdiile she herself noted them under the skin of hands, 

 w^rists, breast, face, and scalp. Four attempts to remove them 

 from under the skin of the nose, hand, and arm failed. He says 

 further that there is no doubt that in many cases several worms 

 are present in the same host.. The record w^as published by 

 Habershon, 1904. 



74. A young French girl who had stayed several years at 

 Libreville (Congo) was taken in 1902 with painful localized 

 edemas of both hands and wrists, occasionally of legs, associated 

 with some rigidity and loss of power. A white worm about the 

 size and length of an ordinary pin was seen beneath the ocular 

 conjunctiva, reappearing later beneath the skin of the eyelids of 

 both eyes, of both forearms, and finally under the frenum of the 

 tongue. Attempts to remove the worm failed. She returned to 



