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ENTOZOA. 



Na'is, Von Siebold. 

 Ghcetog aster, Von Baer. 



There cannot be the slightest doubt in the mind of any well- 

 informed naturalist, that Curling's Dactylius is neither more nor 

 less than a species of abranchiate, setigerous annelid, specimens of 

 which had been designedly introduced into the urine with the view 



Fig. 82. — The so-called Daciyliiis aculeattis. (Highly magnified.)— Curling. 



of puzzling the medical attendant. The case is recorded in the 

 22nd Vol. of the " Medico-Chirurgical Transactions." The patient 

 was a girl hvo years old, under the care of Mr. Drake. The 

 memoir states that " some small worms were first observed in the 

 urine," on the 26th of May, 18-39, " and for several succeeding 



