On a haematozoon inhabiting human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases / by Timothy Richards Lewis.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1872
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Credit: On a haematozoon inhabiting human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases / by Timothy Richards Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The comparisons just instituted, between the three helminths referred, to will, perhaps, be more clearly understood by throwing these details into a tabulated form* : — Relative Aspect peksbnted bt Relative Average breadth. Average length. proportion of breadth to length. Head. Tail. length of tail to total length. Trichina (of muscle) Too' 1 to 28 Pointed Bluut ... Dracunculus(embryo) lo'oo 1 to 31 Rounded Acutely pointed. 1 to 3i Human Hamiatozoou B 50 5 ** 1 to 46 Ditto ... Ditto 1 to 8 The part which the Haematozoon appears to take in the production of disease will become still more evident when the condition of the kidneys and supra- renal capsules, referred to in a previous paragraph (page 17) as having been obtained from a patient who died of Chyluria, has been described. To the naked eye none of these organs presented any marked deviation from the normal standard, except that the kidneys were more than usually lobulated, and, that on section several of the pyramids, espe- cially near their apices, presented a Tallowy appearance ^ L the* pyramids8 of^the smooth, tallowy appearance, suggest- ive of amyloid disease. No approach to the characteristic iodine re-action could, however, * The measurements here introduced of the young Trichina) and Dracuneuli do not materially differ from those generally given. For the sake of uniformity, however, it was considered advisable to measure all three with the same micrometer- scale.