Filaria loa 65 



1904. A Note on Dr. Primrose's Paper on Filariasis. Brit. 

 Med. Jour., 1904, 2:72-73. 



Upholds specific distinctness of F. diiirna from F. Bancrofti 

 as against Annett, Button, and Elliott. Reports occurrence 

 of F. diiirna in case of sleeping sickness in Paris at this time. 



Maurel, . 



1868. Recorded as Obs. Ill by Trucy, 1873 (q.v.). 



Mitchell, H. 



1859. Report of a Case of a Guinea Worm in the Eye. Lancet, 



London, 2 :533-34- 



Young negress taken from West Coast of Africa to Trinidad 



in 1834; worm first seen in 1837, again in 1841, 1845; hence 



at least eleven years in body; had grown from 0.5 in. to 2 in. 



Felt in body later, but not seen [ ?same worm?]. 



MONGIN, . 



1770. Observation sur un Ver trouve sous la conjonctive, a 

 Maribarou, isle Saint Domingue. Jour, de med., Paris, 



32 :338-39. 



Earliest known case, negress of St. Domingo ; worm extracted. 



MONIEZ, R. 



1896. Traite de Parasitologie. Paris, 8°, 680 pp. 



Short description (p. 351), annotated list sixteen cases. Refers 

 in footnote to Guyon's discovery of plate of 1598 showing 

 operation for removal of eye worm. (Cf. Ward, 1905.) 



Moquin-Tandon, a. 



1859. Elements de zoologie medicale. Paris, J. B. Bailliere et 

 Fils, 12°, 428 pp., 122 figs. [Title page date i860. Brit- 

 ish Museum stamp date 24 De. 59. Also in printed 

 catalogue.] 

 Brief account, unchanged in later editions and translations. 



Morton, T. G. 



1877. Account of a worm {Dracnn cuius or Filaria loa) re- 

 moved by a native woman from beneath the conjunctiva 

 of the eyeball of a negress at Gaboon, West Africa, with 

 a brief history of the parasite and Professor Leidy's de- 

 scription of the specimen. Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., (2) 

 74:113-16. 



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