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FACTS IN FILARIASIS. 
10. A black woman, set. 40, emphysema of lungs of 
fifteen years duration. Epigastric uneasiness. 
11. A coloured girl, set. 15, fibroid tumour over the 
parotid gland. 
12. A black woman, set. 34, syphilitic ulcer on ala nasi. 
13. A black woman, set. 22 , breathlessness, dizziness, 
fugacious swellings, coming and going all over the body, 
one of these above the ankle had suppurated before being 
seen by us. 
14. A black man, set. 30, ansemia, dizziness, fugacious 
swellings in hands, arms, legs, &c., coming and going peri¬ 
odically. 
15. A black man, set 24, syphilitic bubo and rheuma¬ 
tism. 
16. A black woman, set. 40, stricture of rectum. 
17. A black woman, set. 54, large ovarian tumours. 
18. A coloured woman, set. 28, retroversio uteri. 
19. A black man, set. 26, pain in chest from a blow three 
months ago, formerly but not during last year suffered from 
intermittent fever. 
20. A black man, set. 38, for the last four days pain on 
right side of thorax running down corresponding arm with a 
feeling of numbness and weakness, otherwise now and always 
quite healthy. 
21. A coloured boy, set. 14, pain in right side of thorax, 
with weak respiratory murmur on that side, puerile on 
left. Enlarged bronchial glands compressing root of right 
lung. 
22. A black man, set. 44, hydrocele. 
23. A coloured boy, set. 12, small cheloid tumour follow¬ 
ing a cut. 
In one very well-marked case of elephancia or Elephan¬ 
tiasis Arabum occurring in one leg of a white woman, aged 
thirty-three, we found no filaria, though carefully looked for 
in many lamiads both of the lymph from the leg and the 
blood. We found the number of filands varied much in 
different individuals. We have already mentioned one 
lamina in which were found fourteen, and the last case on 
our list, the boy with the small cheloid tumour, had still more. 
In the Italian, on the contrary, with inefficient lymph 
scrotum out of six lamiads from the scrotum one filarid only 
was found in two, none in the other four and none in six 
lamiads of blood from the finger. In the case of hsematuria 
we found the filarids only in the blood deposited from the 
urine, and none in six lamiads from the blood of the finger. 
Filarids, even in the same lamina, live for very varying 
