74 Henry B. Ward 



Wilson, F. M. 



1890. Specimens of Filaria ociili hnuiani. Trans. Amer. Oph- 

 thalm. Soc, Hartford, 5 -.yzy-zg. 



Incompletely cited by Blanchard, 1899 ; missionary at Benita 

 (Gaboon) W. Africa says at intervals all natives feel worms 

 in different parts, extract tbem from eye only ; she had one 

 removed at Basel (Switzerland), February, 1889, from left 

 upper eyelid ; one in Bridgeport, Conn., November, 1890, from 

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

 1890, from beneath skin of back; and broken one July, 1890, 

 from right upper eyelid. "So far as I have been able to ob- 

 tain the evidence from the missionaries themselves, these 

 filariae are more common in the cellular tissue than in the 

 eyeball. From the literature we should infer the opposite." 



WURTZ, R. 



1904. Presentation d'une FilariU ha. Soc. med. hyg". trop., 

 seance, 20 jan. 



Not seen ; cited after Wurtz et Clerc, 1905. 

 WuRTz, R., ET Clerc, A. 



1904. Eosinophilic intense provoquee par le Filaria ha. CR. 

 Soc. Biol., Paris, 55:1704-5. 



Young French girl in Congo with Calabar swellings and F. loa 

 had no embryos in blood, but intense eosinophilia ; latter 

 known for genus Filaria, but not noted heretofore for F. loa. 



1905. NoLivelle observation de Filaria loa. Considerations sur 

 I'hematologie des filarioses. Arch. med. exp., Paris, 

 17 : 260-66. 



Same patient as above returned to France in June, 1903. In 

 January, 1904, worm extracted from eye. Eosinophilia some- 

 what reduced, but returned later. Extreme symptoms and 

 continuance indicate that several parasites are present. Dis- 

 cussion of parasite. Calabar swellings, and eosinophilia in 

 helminthiasis. 



Yarr, T^I. T. 



1899. The Filariae of the Eye. Jour. Trop. Med., i :i76-79. 



Native name of Loa means simply "worm." Good review of 

 previous knowledge. No new cases. Records the conjecture 

 of Manson that the cases from the West Indies, also that 

 of Barkan (1876) concern the adult of F. Dcmarquaii, and not 

 F. loa. 



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