Filariasis and elephantiasis in Fiji ; being a report to the London School of Tropical Medicine.

  • Manson-Bahr, Philip Heinrich, Sir, 1881-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Filariasis and elephantiasis in Fiji ; being a report to the London School of Tropical Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the subsequent three months showed them always to be present at night in smaller numbers. In October 11 were counted (an average of three slides). Quinine. 6. Fijian male, aet. 23. Physical condition good. No* symptoms of filariasis. Injected extravenously with 5 gr. quinine bihydro- chloride in 2 c.c. sterile normal saline. No diminution of microfilariae f noted. Before the injection he had an average of 21 (three slides counted) microfilariae per 16 c. mm. blood. Observation two days after the injection showed an average of 26 microfilariae (three slides counted). There was no rise in temperature following the injection. Staphylococcus vaccine. 7. In addition to the case already mentioned, a Fijian male, aet. 26, with no symptoms of filarial disease, was injected subcutaneously with a vaccine of 100,000,000 Staphyloccus pyogenes aureus, isolated from a filarial abscess. 42 (average of three slides) microfilariae per 16 c. mm. were present at the time of inoculation. No rise of temperature was noted. A count was made every day after the injec- tion, and on the third they averaged 46 per 16 c. mm., and a fortnight later 48. APPENDIX XXXIL—Case I.—Four Hour Chart of Filaria with no periodicity. Injection of antimony tartrate i gr. Name : Wanganese. Race : Fijian male, act. 24. May, 1910. 25 2G 27 2S 20 30 I'tiber of crofiUiriae r 16 c. mm. >od. One de taken ery t'oui