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Species PARAGORDITJS CINCTTJS Linstow, 1906. 
1906; Paragordius cinctus JJmstovf , 1906, 245, fig. 11; Africa. 
Linstow records this worm for man in Transvaal, Lydenburg, but 
gives no details regarding the case. The specimen from man was 
found in the collection of the Berlin Museum. 
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Grexxias I?^R-.A..C^HOR.II)ODIES Camerano, 1897'. 
1897: Parachordodes Camerano, 1897g, 368, 389-.S98 {vejovshyi, raphaelis, etc.). — 
Stiles & Hassall, 1905, 127 {tolosanus as type). 
Four species of this genus have been recorded as parasitic in man. 
Species PARACHORDODES TOLOSANDS (Dujardin, 1842) Camerano, 1897. 
1842: Gordius tolosanus T>u]ardin, 1842, 146 (probably France). 
1897: Parachordodes tolosanus (Dujardin, 1842) Camerano, 1897g, 389 bis, 398 
(Europe). 
Case of Degland, 1823. — The original account of this case is not accessible to me, 
but the following statements are taken from various authors, chiefly from Blanchard, 
1890a, 90: 
Following the administration of an emetic, a boy of 8 years of age vomited a worm, 
14 to 16 cm. in length, which Degland referred to Gordius aquaticus.” Villot, 1884, 
88, however, believes that it was a Parachordodes tolosanus. From Blanchard’s 
abstract of this case, it is not quite clear to me whether he considers the case identical 
with that reported by Cloquet (see below) or whether he simply considers the para- 
sites as specifically identical. Not being able to obtain Degland’s paper, I am unable 
to settle this point definitely, but from the fact that Blanchard gives the age of Deg- 
land’s patient as 8 years, while Cloquet’s patient does not appear to have been so 
young, I give the two cases here as distinct. 
Case of Cloquet, 1822a-b. — M. Baymond Pontier, a physician in Uzerches, sent 
the parasite in question to Vareliaud, Paris, who gave it to Cloquet for determination. 
The latter described it as a new species, Opldostoma pouterii 1 822a, 99, and Ophiosioma 
ponterii 1822b, 32. This is classified by Blanchard and by Bailliet as a, synonym of 
Gordius tolosanus. 
The worm was vomited by a farmer near Uzerches; he had been subject to attacks 
of epilepsy for some years, but these ceased permanently as soon as the worm was 
expelled. 
The worm was cylindrical, 9 inches long by half a line in its greatest diameter; 
brown in color, finely annullated with clearer circles; its “mouth” [=tail] was 
“bilabiate,” the under “lip” being longer than the upper. 
Case of Fiori, 1881a. — In April, 1881, Fiori, the attending physician at the Torino 
jail, administered 12 grams of thymic acid to a male prisoner 42 years old who was 
affected with uncinariasis. In the washings of the first stool passed a long, brown, 
filiform, actively motile worm was found in addition to the hook worms. This long 
worm was determined by Dr. Daniele Rosa as a male Gordius tolosanus Duj. seu 
G. subbifurcus Siebold. The symptoms noticed were in harmony with uncinariasis 
and could not be definitely attributed to the Gordius. 
?Case of Camerano, 1888f, 397. — Camerano relates that Professor Pavesi sent to 
him a female Gordius tolosanus found at Brescia, Italy, December, 1874, on a dissect- 
ing table near a human cadaver. There is, however, no evidence that the worm 
came from the cadaver. 
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