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ENTOZOA. 



Nms, Von Siebold. 

 Ghoetogaster, Von Baer. 



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

 informed naturalist, that Curling's Bactylius 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 Dactylius aculeatus. (Highly magnified.) — Curhng. 



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

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

 was a girl five 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, 1839, "and for several, succeeding 



