Note on the further history of the case of Filaria loa previously reported to the Society / by D. Argyll Robertson.

  • Robertson, Douglas Argyll, 1837-1909.
Date:
1897]
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Credit: Note on the further history of the case of Filaria loa previously reported to the Society / by D. Argyll Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    228 PARASITIC DISEASES. some weeks previously been troubled with a worm occa¬ sionally appearing under the conjunctiva. Since tben she had on two occasions bad incisions made on the knuckles for a worm that seemed to wander down her arm and suddenly appear at the wrist or back of the hand. She stated that insects do not bite her often, that mosquitoes are few where she was staying, and that she did not think she had suffered from a sand-fly bite since she came out. Miss H—*■ did not stand the climate of Calabar well, and became again affected with severe colitis and dysentery, so that she had to be sent home about the middle of January, arriving in this country in the beginning of March in a very feeble, exsanguine state. She is residing in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and I have seen her twice since her return, the last time being on the 3rd of June, when I found her much improved in her general health, the dysentery having almost entirely ceased. She explained to me that the worm removed from her at Calabar had been extracted from the abdominal wall in the left lumbar region. She also stated that she always has nausea and headache at the times the worms are troubling her, and that occasional swellings in the arms such as she has are not uncommon among natives of or residents in Old Calabar, and that all of those thus affected whom she questioned were troubled with worms. She has recently had visits of the worm to the lids of both eyes, to the side of the nose, the crown of the head, the left shoulder, and under the skin of both hands, especially over the knuckle of the middle finger of the left hand, but the worm's visits were of very short dura¬ tion. On the 15th of last month the parasite reappeared in the abdominal wall, on this occasion close to the umbilicus. Attempts were made by a doctor in her immediate neigh¬ bourhood to secure the worm, but they failed, the parasite disappearing before suitable forceps could be got to seize it.