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NOTE OF A CASE OF INTESTINAL INFECTION IN MAN, 
WITH THE LARVA OF HOMALOMYIA GANIGULARIS. 
By A. BERTRAM SOLTATJ, M.D., 
Plymouth. 
The specimen of the larva of H. canicularis was obtained from the 
stool of an adult man, who gave the following history: 
He had been in good health and had not been conscious of any 
intestinal disorder. On the morning of the 28th of May he happened to 
look down into the pan of the closet after passing a motion and noticed 
that there was considerable movement taking place in the motion, which 
was partially formed. This movement was due to the presence of a 
large number of larvae, several of which crawled up the edge of the pan. 
He secured one and brought it to me in a bottle, and it was then alive 
and moving vigorously about the bottle. It maintained its vitality so 
long as it was in my possession, and until it was despatched to 
Cambridge for identification. 
Since the day on which the larvae were passed no more have been 
seen nor has the patient, once he recovered from the state of natural 
alarm at finding he was the host of such unpleasant parasites, suffered 
in any way from intestinal trouble. 
He is a man who has been accustomed to eat largely of salads, etc., 
and it seems probable that the larvae gained an entrance by means of 
an imperfectly washed salad. 
There are no stables in the immediate vicinity of his house. 
