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tory confirmation of the views of Busk and Jacobson respecting 

 the viviparous character of this worm. I found myriads of 

 minute larval Dracunculi, in various stages of development, 

 within the maternal body, the latter appearing to be little else 

 than a long, double, cyhndrical sac, filled almost fi:-om one end to 

 the other. Respecting other points connected with our knowledge 

 of the history and ravages of the Dracunculus we stand indebted 

 to the contributions of numerous writers, amongst whom, without 

 placing them in any precise order, I may particularize the names 

 of Agatharchidas, Galen, Velschius, Kaempfer, and Cartheuser, 

 Blommers, Lister, Grundler, Gallandatus, Modeer, Linneus, 

 Gmelin, Rudolphi, Olfers, Lamarck, Bruguiere, Pruner, Gescheidt, 

 Chiaje, Ferrari, Richeraud, Chapotin, Gand, "Weihe, Oppenheim, 

 Cuvier, Oharvet, Marc and Laennec, Dubois, Leblond, Dampier,* 

 Bajon, Clot-Bey, Mongin and Blott, Dujardin, Brulatour, Maison- 

 neuve, Robin, Thibaut and Benoit, Andry, Chardin, Moquin- 

 Tandon, Davaine ; also ^tius, Niebuhr, Paulus JEgineta, Rhazes, 

 Avicenne, Albucasis, and other Arabic authors ; also Oezilly, 

 Loeffler, Bschricht, Oken, Dutschek, Fischer, KunsenmiiUer, 

 Creplin, Siebold, Kiichenmeister, "Weinland, Eberth, Williamson, 

 Yan Someran, Bwart, Grierson, Paton, Scott, Adam, Kennedy and 

 Smyttan, McGrigor, Young and Jamieson, Minas and McKenzie, 

 Clark, Heath, Forbes, Chisholm, Greenhow, Morehead, M'Clelland, 

 Lorimer, Bird, Leith, Mitchell, Stewart, Duncan, G. Harley, and 

 Aitken. To wade through the literature of Dracunculus, as pre- 

 sented by the combined writings of these and other unnamed 

 authors, would almost occupy a life-time, supposing any single 

 individual were quahfied for the task. It is fortunate, indeed, that 

 all the important points recorded by the more ancient authors have 

 been carefully culled and handed down to us from time to time ; 

 so that, now, in the writings of Kiichenmeister, Davaine, and Aitken 

 alone, one may find all that is historically and professionally 

 interesting, whilst in those of Busk, Carter, and Bastian, we are 

 presented with the most satisfactoiy anatomical data yet on record. 



