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VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LII. 
No. 615. 
MARCH, 1879. Fourth Series, 
5 No. 291. 
Communications and Cases. 
REMARKS ON THE FI LARI A MEDINENSIS, OR 
GUINEA-WORM; ON THE OCCURRENCE OF 
THIS PARASITE ENDEMICALLY IN THE PRO¬ 
VINCE OF BAHIA; ON ITS ENTRANCE INTO 
THE HUMAN BODY BY DRINKING WATER. 
By J. E. da Silva Lima, M.D., Officiating Physician at the 
Hospital da Caridade, Bahia. Translated from the 
Portuguese by Dr. J. L. Paterson, of Bahia, and com¬ 
municated to Professor Cobbold. 
(Continued from p. 69.) 
Part II. 
In 1850, while still a student of medicine, I was consulted 
by Antonio Francisco d’Oliveira, a Portuguese merchant, of 
some thirty years of age, resident in Joazeiro, a town at the 
back of this province. He told me he had in his body a 
guinea-worm, with which he had become infected in a 
former journey from Bahia to that town, in company with 
his brother and seven other persons, employed in his service, 
of whom several suffered from a similar parasite, or had 
expelled it, or had it extracted, either in whole or in part; 
that, in him, it had travelled through various regions of the 
upper half of the body, had worked its way up the left side 
of the neck, crossed the brow, and descending by the temple 
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