68 Henry B. Ward 



Falsely cited by various authors as furnishing evidence of the 

 occurrence of F. loa in Africa in the sixteenth century. (Cf. 

 Ward, 1905.) 



Plehn, Fr. 



1898. Die Kamerun-Kuste. Studien zur Klimatologie, Phy- 

 siologic und Pathologic in den Tropcn. Berlin, 8°, 363 

 pp., I chart, 47 text figs. 



Observed three cases in Kamerun negroes, a fourth in an 

 English official was not seen personally. According to na- 

 tives the worm occurs in the eye of goats and sheep also. 

 Attributes to F. loa "probably" also certain fugitive swellings 

 and dermal inflammations about the size of a silver dollar. 



Primrose, A. 



1903. Filariasis in man cured by removal of the adult worms 

 in an operation for lymph scrotum. Brit. Med. Jour., 

 1903, 2:1262-65. 



Records two cases of F. loa in Canada. No examination of 

 blood for embryos. 



1905. Idem. Canad. Pract. & Rev., Toronto, 30:135-46. 

 Reprint of Primrose, 1903. 

 Prout, W. T. 



1902. P'ilariasis in Sierra Leone. British Med. Jour., 2 :879- 

 81. Rev. CB. Bakt. u. Par.. 32 R:528. 



One case F. loa in a European, two worms removed, one from 

 eyelid, other from loose skin of penis ; patient had lived in 

 Congo, blood swarming with embryo nematodes. First case 

 in Sierra Leone, probably introduced. 



QUADRI, A. 



1858. (Note dans proces-verbaux de la deuxieme section, 

 seance du 15 septembre, pp. 153-57, 3 figs.) Congres 

 d'Ophthal. de Bruxelles, Compte-rendus (Session de 

 1857). Paris. 



Filaria in vitreous body determined by ophthalmoscope ; pro- 

 nounced b}^ later critics nothing more than persistent hyaloid 

 artery, although confirmed by Delia Chiaje. 



Railliet, a. 



1893. Traite de zoologie medicale et agricole. 2me ed. Paris, 

 ire fasicule. 

 Brief (p. 529) ; no new cases or facts. 



