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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. F. 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 page 156). 
Part III. 
This document bears date the 1st of August, 1869. The 
convoy which, in April, 1849, left Bahia for Joazeiro, 
consisted of the following individuals :—Antonio F. d’Oliveira 
Sampaio, and his brother Manoel F. d’Oliveira, owners of 
the merchandise. Manoel Jorge Lima, Pedro Lodres Noid, 
Joao Curimata, Manoel da Brauca, Verssimo Barboza 
d’Oliveira, the African Francisco, and the Brazilian black, 
&c., servants and mule drivers. 
Of these various persons five were interrogated, the rest 
were dead or absent. By their evidence it will be seen that 
they were not the only people infected, for they refer to 
another convoy that made the same journey at the same 
time, halting at the same place, and affirm that seyeral 
persons, three at least of this other convoy, suffered at the 
same time and in a similar manner, more or less, as they 
themselves did. 
1. The first witness is Manoel Jorge da Lima. His evi¬ 
dence was to the effect that, in 1849, he came to the capital 
of the province, by way of Jacuipe, in company of his 
masters, the brothers Oliveira, one now dead and the other 
resident in Europe, and of the other six above-named indi¬ 
viduals; that, on the same occasion, there came also Suciano 
Seite da Silva, with several persons, whose names he knows 
not, but only that three of that convoy, including Luciano 
himself, since dead, had afterwards the guinea-worm; that, 
of his own convoy, he himself and five others, including his 
two masters, suffered from it, some so severely as to have 
convulsions. He stated further that at that time there was a 
talk of the guinea-worm and of its presence in various 
marshes, but that neither be nor his companions, being fore- 
