The Shipley collection of scientific papers, Volumen2911918 |
Términos y frases comunes
adult Alexandria animals ankylostomiasis April ARMY MEDICAL CORPS Ayat Bilbeis Bilharzia cercaria Bilharzia Disease bilharzia eggs Bilharzia hæmatobia bilharzia worms bilharziosis body Brit Bullinus Bythinia Cairo cas de Bilharziose Charaki Cobbold Compt containing cotton Delta distomes Distomum hæmatobium drains Egyptian embryo Endemic Endemic Hæmaturia experimentally infected experiments fæces female filtered water forms Gastropoda Giza Helminthology ibid immersion infection intermediary host intermediate host intestinal bilharziosis Ismailia Ismailia Canal japonica Journ Lancet large numbers larvæ larval lateral-spined eggs Limnæa liver Looss Lortet males mansoni Marg Marg Canal méd Melania tuberculata miracidia miracidium molluscs monkeys Nile obtained occur Pallary parasite Paris perennial irrigation Physa Planorbis Planorbis boissyi ponds Premier Congrès égyptien rend rotation ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL Schistosomum skin snails Sonsino species specimens spine sporocyst Suez supply Sweet Water Canal tail terminal-spined eggs tertiary canals trematodes Tunisie unfiltered water urine ventral suckers village Zoological Gardens
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Página 12 - ... the part played in the infection by the liver, etc.). "The theory of infection by the skin is in accordance with all the facts thus far known (a) of the biology of the parasite, (b) of the distribution of the disease among the population (native and foreign, town and rural) of Egypt. It shows (c) how the chief sufferers — the children in town, the adult males in the country — live under conditions which, from the epidemiological point of view, are essentially the same ,and give the miracidia...
Página 90 - Mouth opening in the middle of the ventral surface. Intestine simple sac-shaped. Two long projections from the end of the body. Ventral sucker lacking. Ventral sucker at the posterior end of the body. Cercariae with longitudinal cuticular projections along the sides of the body. Tail forked. Ventral sucker towards middle of body. Base of the tail forms a space into which the body can be drawn. Tail having as great or greater width than the body. Tail straight, slender, and narrower than the body....
Página 48 - ... liability to infection, as the intermediate hosts discharge infective agents for a prolonged period. (4) Infected troops cannot reinfect themselves or spread the disease directly to others. They could only convey the disease to those parts of the world where a local mollusc could efficiently act as carrier. (5) Infection actually takes place both by the mouth and through the skin. Recently contaminated moist earth or water is not infective. (6) Infection in towns is acquired from unfiltered water...
Página xxv - A note on a case of bilharzial worms in the pulmonary blood in a case of bilharzial colitis <Lancet, Lond.
Página xiii - II. p. 394. Third Communication on the endemic haematuria of the south-eastern coast of Africa with remarks on the tropical medication of the bladder.
Página 140 - ... unknown. Most of us, I hope, have tried their hands at self-government ; and those who have met with any measure of success in that difficult art will, I believe, agree with me that safety lies neither in the regimentation of asceticism nor in the anarchy of reckless self-seeking, but in a middle course. Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Página 127 - With the information at the disposal of troops, bilharziosis should now be treated as one of those diseases for which the individual is mainly, if not entirely, personally responsible.
Página 24 - The programme of work laid down and consistently followed was : — (a) To collect and specifically determine all the fresh-water molluscs in the selected endemic area, ie, within half a day's journey from the laboratory in Cairo. (b) To dissect large numbers of all species found for trematode larvae. (c) To differentiate among the larvae found those showing the morphological characters peculiar to the bilharzia group. (d) To ascertain which, if any, species of mollusc showed chemiotactic attraction...
Página 48 - (1) Transient collections of water are quite safe after recent contamination. "(2) All permanent collections of water, such as the Nile, canals, marshes and birkets, are potentially dangerous, depending upon the presence of the essential intermediary host. "(3) The removal of infected persons from a given area would have no effect, at least for some months, in reducing the liability to infection, as the intermediate hosts discharge infective agents for a prolonged period. "(4) Infected troops can...
Página xxvi - Human cestoides. An essay on the tapeworms of man, giving a full account of their nature, organization, and embryonic development; the pathological symptoms they produce, and the remedies which have proved successful in modern practice. To which is added an appendix, containing a catalogue of all species of helminthes hitherto found in man.