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of confervoid type, probably belonging to the genus Oscillatoria " 

 (' Mic. Soc. Trans.,' 1, 1844) ; " An Account of the Dissection of a 

 Human Embryo of about the fourth week of Gestation, with some 

 observations on the early development of the Human Heart" ('Mic. 

 Soc. Trans.,' 3, 1852); "Description of an early human Embryo of 

 about the fourth week of Utero- Gestation " ('Mic. Soc. Trans.,' 5, 

 1857). 



In the ' Medical Gazette ' for 1835 (vol. 17), Dr. Earre published a 

 paper on the ' Trichina Spiralis.' In the previous volume of the 

 Gazette the discovery of the parasite is referred to as follows : — /* The 

 muscles of bodies dissected at St. Bartholomew's Hospital had been 

 more than once noticed by Mr. Wormald, the demonstrator, to be 

 beset with minute whitish specks, and their appearance having been 

 again remarked in the body of an Italian aged 45, by Mr. Paget, a 

 student of the hospital (now Sir James Paget), who suspected it to 

 be produced by minute entozoa, the suspicion was found to be correct, 

 and Mr. Owen was furnished with portions of the muscles on which 

 he had made the following observations." An account is then given of 

 the observations of Professor Owen, who named the parasite Trichina 

 spiralis. A second body infested by this parasite had been observed in 

 the dissecting room of St. Bartholomew's, within a fortnight after the 

 occurrence of the first, and the object of Dr. Earre's paper was, as he 

 said, mainly to refer to some points on which he was able to give some 

 additional information, or as to which his observations differed from 

 those of Professor Owen. In particular he had been able to make 

 out in some specimens the existence of a distinct alimentary canal 

 and an ovary. A paper by Dr. Earre " On Diplosoma crenata, an 

 entozoon inhabiting the human bladder, and hitherto often confounded 

 with Spiroptera Inominis" was published in Beale's 'Archives of 

 Medicine,' vol. 1, p. '290). 



The article "Worms," in the ' Library of Medicine' (vol. 5, p. 241), 

 w T as contributed by Dr. Farre. 



At a time when Dr. Earre was overworked and harassed by his 

 large practice, he had the great sorrow of losing his wife, and shortly 

 afterwards he sustained a compound dislocation of the ankle, in con- 

 sequence of a fall from a second floor window into the area of his 

 house. The wound gradually healed, and he was able to move about, 

 first with crutches, and then with the help of a stick ; but he remained 

 painfully lame until his death, which occurred on the 17th December, 

 1887. 



Dr. Earre's lectures and his clinical teaching were highly appre- 

 ciated by his pupils, of whom the writer of this notice had the good 

 fortune to be one. He was a model physician accoucheur, and he 

 acquired the confidence and esteem of the profession through his 

 diagnostic and practical skill, and the high principles and sense of 



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