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OZZARD, A. T. 



1903. Filaria loa. Jour. Trop. Med., 6:139. Also correction 

 by Thompstone, Ibid. 6:160. 



Two males and two females collected by Thompstone in Opobo, 

 Nigeria. Description scanty; purely anatomical. 



Pace, A. 



1867. Sopra un iittovo nematodo. Giorn. sci. nat. ed 

 econom., 2. 



Worm taken from tumor of upper eyelid of boy; named F. pal- 

 pebralis (nee Wilson, 1844). Not F. loa, perhaps F. coii- 

 junctk'ac Addario (1885, q.v.). 



Penel, R. 



1904. Les tilaires dti sang de riiomme. CR. sect. med. et 

 hyg. colonial., Paris, 199-217. 



The autopsy of a Congo negro in Paris showed many adult 

 F. loa in the superficial connective tissue of the appendages, 

 none elsewhere. F. loa appears in the eye only when young 

 and active. It lives later elsewhere and causes transitory 

 unexplained troubles or more often none at all. 



1905. Les filaires du sang de I'liomme. Arch. Parasitol., 

 9 : 1 87-204. 



Reprint of Penel, R., 1904. 

 PiCCIRILLI, — — . 



1879. Del elmintiasi oftalmica. L'Independente, 1879:425-30. 



Not seen; cited after Parona, Eliniutologia Italiana. Small 

 structures in anterior chamber ; probably not worms. 



Pick. L 



1905. [Demonstration eincr durch Operation gewonnenen 

 Filaria loa.] Dtsch. med. Woch., 31 :ii72. 



Specimen taken from under conjunctiva in February, 1905. 

 Host lived in Kamerun 1897-98, since then in Germany. No 

 intimation of its presence until day before its removal. "The 

 worm is an intestinal (sic!) parasite." 



PiGAFETTA, FiLIPPO. 



1598. Vera descriptio regni africani, quod tarn ab incolis quam 

 Lusitanis Congus appellatur. Francoforti VV. Richter, 

 & Th. & lo. de Brv. 



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