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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    ON A IliEMATOZOON INHABITING HUMAN BLOOD: ITS DELATION TO CHYLUEIA AND OTHER DISEASES.* Eor many generations writers on medical subjects liave _ maintained that the human blood HXidnt£alfnFeUmeT- during certain diseased conditions is invaded by parasites. The opinion most in favour has been, that these in all probability were in the form of worms; but, so far as I have been able to ascertain, it has never yet been satisfactorily demonstrated that this condition really existed. That certain limited areas of the circulatory tract may become invaded bv Entozoa has The Distomata hi- *' toortoiarKlcovtoredpasa long been known: the portal vein, through the capillaries; , , it and the vessels m more or less direct relation with the intestinal canal, are the channels which have usually been thus affected; but the parasites found in these situations, such as the Distoma limmatobium, * Forming an Appendix to the Eighth Annual Report of the Sanitari- Commissioner with the Government of India.