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Title: Case of Filaria loa

Author: Douglas Argyll Robertson

Release date: February 1, 2023 [eBook #69927]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Adlard & Son, 1895

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CASE OF FILARIA LOA.

BY
D. ARGYLL ROBERTSON, M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed.,
OCULIST TO H.M. THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND; PRESIDENT OF THE
OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM; LECTURER ON
DISEASES OF THE EYE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, ETC.

Reprinted from the ‘Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society.’

LONDON:
PRINTED BY ADLARD AND SON,
BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.C., and 20, HANOVER SQUARE, W.
1895.

PLATE VI

Illustrates Dr. Argyll Robertson’s paper on Filaria loa.

Male Filaria Loa.

Fig. 1.—The whole worm. Portions of the testicles and alimentary canal protruding through a rupture of the wall of the parasite.

Fig. 2.—The head of the worm.

Fig. 3.—The curved tail of the worm with its papillæ.

Fig. 4.—The ruptured part of the worm with protruding alimentary canal and testes.