' FACTS IN FILARIASIS. 
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2 of the former we found one filarid, and none in the other 
4, nor in any of the six from the finger. Let it be remarked 
in passing that the filarids of which we speak we found 
alive in every case. 
The second white, set. 28, suffered from hsematuria of 
two months 5 duration. The filarids were found in the blood 
deposited from the urine, and were alive in it even at the 
end of thirty hours. None were found in six lamiads taken 
from the finger. The bsematuria in this patient was refrac¬ 
tory to all treatment for two months, at the end of which time 
he went for a few days to the Feira de Santa Anna, and 
during his stay there the urine became quite clear. The 
blood reappeared, however, on his return to Bahia. He then 
left for the island of Madre de Deos, and, the day after, his 
urine became quite clear, and has remained so. We have not 
again had an opportunity of examining his blood. 
The third white, set. 23, had been suffering for some 
months back from albuminuria, and had the filaria in great 
abundance. While under observation he had an intercur¬ 
rent attack of jaundice, and when this new disease became 
fully developed the albumen for a time disappeared from the 
urine, returning as the jaundice passed off. The filarids 
were in no way affected by the change. 
The first 2 at least of these whites, it will be observed, 
suffered from diseases that have generally been considered 
as associated in some way, not explained, with filarids. 
The other 23 are given simply in the order in which they 
presented themselves, with the diseases either diagnosed or 
complained of. 
1. A black woman, set. 46, complained of intestinal irri¬ 
tation. 
2. A coloured boy, set. 10, simple intermittent fever. 
3. A coloured man, set. 24, with giddiness and nervous 
derangement and depression in apparent health. 
4. A black man, set. 40, fissures in soles of feet. 
5. A black woman, set. 30, rheumatalgia, with oedema of 
the legs. 
6. A black man, set. 22, lymph scrotum, with fre¬ 
quently recurring attacks of erysipelas in scrotum, arms, and 
legs. 
7. A black woman, set. 48, embarraco gastrico. 
8. A black man, set. 38, embarraco gastrico, with great 
increase of white corpuscles. 
9. A coloured woman, set. 50, sacculated aneurism of the 
innominata, as well as of the left carotid at its bifurcation. 
We counted fourteen filarids in one lamina. 
