3^7 
ON THE SUPPOSED OCCURRENCE 
OF FILARIA IMMITIS IN MAN 
BY 
j. W. W. STEPHENS, Cantab. 
WALTEI MVERS LF.CTrRF-lt IN TROPICAL MKOICINE. 
(Received for publication 17 November, igoSJ 
Over and over again the statement Bowlby 
ledicine and parasitology that this worm as ^^^uracy of the 
a man. Not infrequently referring recently to 
ientification of the parasite by Bow y. v-orms 
Jowlby's communication, I was surprise o whatever is 
oundly Bowlby were BUhar.a and that - — had 
nade of Filaria Further I found ‘hat ^ 
dready been pointed out by Moniez appears 
TOW the error arose. As, however, P r-ull attention once 
10 have been overlooked, I think it adv,sable to call attentro 
more to the facts. communication made by 
The following is the reportt o 
Bowlby to the Pathological Society of London. 
‘Mr. Bowlhy exhibited the T^: hr^ pa-nt was 
viscera removed from two cases of Alexandria under the 
an Arab, who was admitted into the hospi a 
care of Dr. Mackie. The man was ladder was 
with foul, blood-stained urine. O contained a 
found to be greatly thickened, an bilharzia worm were 
malignant tumour. In the urine the o the patient’s 
found. Perineal cystotomy was performe or post-mortem 
suffering, but he died a were found in the 
examination numerous female oiin urinary organs 
portal vein, thirty-seven of which, toget er\\i Mackie 
and portions of the lungs and spleen, had been - 
t Lancet. 20 th Apnl. iH8<>. p- 7^0. 
