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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    clianical interruption offered (by the accidental aggre- gation, perhaps, of the Haematozoa), to the flow of the nutritive fluids of the body in various channels, giving rise to the obstruction of the current within them, or to rupture of their extremely delicate walls, and thus causing the contents of the lacteals, lymphatics or capil- laries, to escape into the most convenient excretory channel. Such escaped fluid, as has been demonstrated in the case of the urinary and lachrymal or Meibomian secretion, may be the means of carrying some of the Tilariae with it out of the circulation. These occur- rences are liable to return after long intervals—so long in fact as the Tilarise continue to dwell in the blood : (3) . As a rule, a Chylous condition of the urine is only one of the symptoms of this state of the circula- tion, although it appears to be the most characteristic symptom which we are at present aware of: (4) . And, lastly, it appears probable that some of the hitherto inexplicable phenomena, by which certain tropical diseases are characterised, may eventually be traced to the same, or to an allied condition. The importance of a careful microscopical examin- ation of the blood of persons suffering from obscure diseases, in tropical countries especially, is therefore more than ever evident, and opens up a new and most im- portant field of enquiry—referring as it does to a hither- to unknown diseased condition,. Calcutta, October 1872.