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.

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    Cause of various con- ditions which may or may not be associated with Chyluria m odification—for The same remarks apply to the etiology of the various other phenomena enumerated as the more or less frequent concom- itants of Chyluria, without much even should actual rupture not take place, local congestions may be induced or very trifling fissures, which might yet be sufficient to interfere with the functions of delicate organs, or it may be, as in the case of the eye or ear, that the mischief may he chiefly due to some changes induced in the refractive media of the former, or in the fluid in contact with the nerve filaments in the latter. The intestinal affection, if in reality connected with the entrance or exit of these Pilarise, The intestinal affec- tion, &c.; deserves special attention. The only known symptom from which the man in whose blood this helminth was first discovered, was severe diarrhoea; the commencement of the illness of another man is dated from a similar attack, which developed itself into what is described as “ chronic dysentery,” on which the usual medicines appear to have had no influence, for during the last five years the disease came and went without reference to medical treatment—the chylous condition of the urine having been equally irregular in its appear- ance and disappearance. It will he remembered that the intestinal affection commenced eight months before the urinary symptoms appeared; moreover, in the woman whose autopsy has been recorded on a previous page, ‘ tubercular-like5 ulcers were found in the intestines, as also in the lungs. All these occurrences, especially