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and disengaging themselves only after great effort or not 
at all. 
In one black man, aged forty, suffering from intermittent 
fever we found no filarids, but a great number of minute 
bacteroids having not a wriggling but a darting motion. We 
bad but a single lamina, and the patient was gone before we 
made the discovery and never returned. 
A number of interesting questions may be suggested as 
awaiting further investigation before a complete answer can 
be given to them. For example, bow long is this abnormal 
state of the blood capable of lasting in any one individual ? 
Again, what is the life-duration in the blood of any one filaria ? 
By what organs, and how are these entozoa eliminated ? Are 
they so eliminated alive or dead ? And if sometimes, at 
least the latter, are they so entire or after disintegration ? 
Where do they reside ? Within the blood-vessels ? And there 
only or also in the lymphatics or even in the intervas- 
cular spaces ? Above all whence come they ? Many zealous 
investigators, both here and elsewhere, are already in the 
field, and we may confidently hope for some more definite 
reply than has yet been furnished to these and other ques¬ 
tions. 
To Dr. Hall occurred the idea of extending his researches 
to the dead body, and finding a living filaria in blood from a 
vein at the upper part of the arm, he made a very careful search 
of the heart, thoracic duct, &c., but found no parent filaria 
nor any other fact tending to the solution of the above 
problems. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, Demonstrator of Anatomy at the 
Royal Veterinary College. 
[Continued from p. 334.) 
Summary. —From the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire, 
15th April, 1879 :— MM. Bouley, Hervieux , and Pasteur , 
On Puerperal Fever, as related to Bacteria. 5 ’ M. Zundel, 
“ On the Position of Private Practitioners in Germany, 5 
Bulletin de la Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire. M 
P. Cagny , “ On Bacteria Infection, especially of the Intes¬ 
tines in Hernia, 55 Revue Veterinaire de Toulouse, April, 1879. 
M. Mauri, “ On Trichinosis in Spain. 55 
