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papillae. The hyaloid and vitreous in its vicinity were somewhat 

 clouded. 



Filaria Mansoni in Chickens. Railliet records the frequency 

 of entozoa in the eyes of wild beasts and Neumann the frequency 

 of filaria in the blood of ravens and mapgies in Eastern Asia. It 

 is intere.sting to note in this connection the record by Cobbold of 

 Filaria Mansoni in the eyes of chickens in China. 



Entozoa in the Eye of the Goose. Small found among 

 geese, which frequented a stream with a filthy bottom, in the 

 vicinity of Dublin, Ireland, a great prevalence of an unilateral 

 ophthalmia. The cornea became cloudy, and the bulb gradually 

 encreased in size until it projected outside the orbit causing in- 

 tense pain. One goose was sacrificed and the cornea incised 

 when there was found in the aqueous humor a black vermiform 

 object comparable to a young leech. Neumann suggests that it 

 may have been a filaria. Small says the stream contained a number 

 of leeches. 



Filaria Palpebralis. Grisoni who first described the Filaria 

 oculi, also reported the Filaria palpebralis on the conjunctiva of 

 the horse in 1429. Gurlt described it in 1831, and Klieni in 1839. 

 It has been described by Goubaux, Serres, Lafosse, Baillet, 

 Railliet, Neumann and others. 



The worm is whitish, cylindroid and only .slightly attenuated 

 at the ends. Mouth terminal, very small without papillae. 

 CEsophagus short and becoming more spacious posteriori j'. Anus 

 almost terminal. Integument non-striated. Male 8 to 14 mm. 

 long. Tail curved in an arc, and showing near its end two in- 

 equal spicula. Female 14 to 15 mm. long. Tail straight. 

 Ovoviviparous. 



Gurlt and Goubaux found the.se worms frequently in horses 

 received for dissection and the eyes of which were apparently 

 sound. They were found at all seasons, June (Goubaux), 

 November (Railliet) and December (Kliem). 



Symptoms. These may be entirely lacking. In other cases 

 there was slight conjunctivitis (Goubaux, Railliet) and in still 

 others active inflammation. In Railliet' s case there were tumefied 

 painful lids; red, infiltrated conjunctiva; a constant discharge 

 from the inner canthus, and two ero.sions of the centre of the 

 cornea. In Kliem's case the lids were firmly closed, the flow of 



