NEMATODA (and nematorrhyncha). Verm. 17 
pathol. anat. Inst, in Wien (Wien. Medicin. Prosse, No. 27, pp. 925). 
Fayrer, on Filaria sangainis-hominis CRgyptiaca Aug. 26, 1876). 
CoBBOLD, Notification of recent hsematozoal discoveries in Australia and 
Egypt (Brit. Med. J., June 24, 1876, p 780). Winckel, Chyloser Ascites 
benirkt durch Parasiten (Haematozoen) ; Arcli. f. klin. Med. xvii. p. 303. 
Knock, Die Trichinen-Endemie und Epidemie in Moskau ; Arch. Anat. 
Phys. Ixvi. p. 393. Muller, Trichinose in Westphalen ; Zeitschr. f. prakt. 
Med. Nos. 14 & 15. A. Koch, Ueber Parasiten des Schweines mit beson- 
derer Beriicksichtigung der Trichinose ; Oesterr. Monatschr. f . Thierheilk. 
i. p. 5. Damman, Zur Frage des Lebendauers und der Verkapselung der 
Trichinen bei dem Schweine ; Zeitschr. f. Thiermedicin, hi. p. 92, 
Krylow, Ueber die Trichinose in Russland; op. cit. ii. pp. 320-331. 
Several Russian papers on Nematoids (unknown to the Recorder) are 
cited by Leuckart {1. c.), e.g. : Melnikoff, on Cytoopsis acipenseria • 
Tr. Nat. Soc. Kasan, 1871-72. Radkewitch, on the evolution of Nema- 
toda ; Tr. Nat Soc. Charkow, 1871 (JB. Leist. Fort. Anat. i.). Fed- 
SCHENKO on Filaria medinensisy tricuspis, and quadrispina^ spp. nn., 
Mermis longissimus and explicans^ spp. nn. ; Nachr. Ges. Mosc. x. 
pp. 51-69, pi. xiv. 
Bugnion (24) has studied the different forms of pneumonia produced 
by adult Strongyli micruri coiled up in the bronchi of calves and 
heifers, or by eggs and young of other species in the pulmonary tissue of 
goats, sheep, pigs, and cats. According to O’Neill (Lancet, 1875), a 
microscopical Filaria causes in the negroes of West Africa a cuticular 
disease resembling scabies ; R. Leuckart (JB. Leist. Fort. Anat, i. 
p. 551) observed a similar phenomenon in the fox. Rhahditis stercoralis, 
Bavay (23), is found in the stomach, intestine, hepatic and biliary ducts 
of persons suffering from the “ diarrhoea of Cochin China.” 
One of the most important chapters in the concluding volume of 
Leuckart’s “ Menschlichen Parasiten ” (3) is that (pp. 642-725) devoted 
to dracontiasis and to Dracunculus medinensis. The male is unknown. 
In the adult female, the vent is obliterated, and all other organs reduced in 
bulk through the excessive development of the uterus. The young ones 
are not expelled through a sexual orifice (wanting in the adult worm), but 
set free through the bursting of the maternal body. Leuckart’s hypothesis 
that small Crustacea of the Cyclops tribe might be the interimistic hosts 
of the young guinea- worms, was confirmed by Fedschenko in Turkestan ; 
they penetrate in the Cyclops through the skin between the abdominal 
segments, and assume an interimistic larval form, equally unlike the pre- 
ceding and the final one. The anatomy of the adult worm is treated in 
full. The other species described in this volume are : (2) Trichina spiralis 
(pp. 513-609) ; rats are the true hosts of this parasite, and hogs chiefly 
infected from them; (3) Filaria lahialis, Pane (p. 616), once found 
in a pustule at the lip ; (4) F. hronchialis, Rud. (p. 618), found once in 
the bronchial glands and adjoining lymphatic vessels of a phthisical 
patient ; (5) F. lou, Guyot (p. 619), below the conjunctiva in negroes id 
Western Africa and the Antilles; (6) T. lentiSy Dies. (p. 622), found 
thrjce in the lens (young . specimens, perhaps, of different species) ; 
(7) T. sanguinis-hominiSy Lewis (p. 628), only known in the embryonic 
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