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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Tropical diseases : a manual of the diseases of warm climates 
    Publication: New York : William Wood, 1898
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584993
    ... natural history. I. PARASITES OF THE CIRCULATORY AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEMS. THE FILARLE SANGUINIS AND FILARIASIS. History*—Our knowledge of this subject dates from ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The communicable diseases : how they spread and how they may be controlled 
    Publication: New York : Harper & Brothers [1923]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/29521140R
    ... person. Conjugation of THE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DENGUE AND FILARIASIS 215 the sexes is essential to multiplication and takes place only within the lymphatic system. Multiplication is brought about by the expulsion ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Medicine in the tropics 
    Publication: [Firestone, Liberia] : Firestone, c1957
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8801128A
    ... urgent medical problems in Africa. [Bancroftian Filariasis] Bancroft's filariasis is due to a filarial worm parasite, Wuchereria Bancrofti, which invades the lymphatic system. [Filarial Elephantiasis] It is transmitted by a ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Flight surgeon's handbook 
    Publication: Randolph Field, Tex. : School of Aviation Medicine, [1943]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9102641
    ... infective larvae of loiasis. (3) Diagnosis: (a) Bancroft’s filariasis: Adults develop in lymph glands. Are essentially asym- ptomatic until occurrence of lymphatic obstruction (lymphocele) caused by host tissue reaction to ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The American illustrated medical dictionary : a new and complete dictionary of the terms used ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia ; London : W. B. Saunders Company, 1924
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/26420040R
    ... of the scrotum, lymph-s., dilatation of the scrotal lymphatics, as in certain cases of filariasis; described by Wong, of Canton, in 1858. scrum- ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Report of a case of indigenous parasitic chyluria with filaria nocturna in the blood 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea Bros. & Co., [1896?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101754064
    ... abscesses form part of the clinical history of filariasis. The exciting cause of the chyluria was probably the rupture of a dilated lymphatic during the expulsive pains of labor. The supposition ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Good health and long life : means of increasing health, preventing disease and prolonging ... 
    Publication: Chicago : [Press of the Henry O. Shepard Co.], 1914
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/07220780R
    ... the yellow fever mosquito and one which causes filariasis, a tropical disease caused by a worm which lives in the skin and lymphatic vessels. The disease is transmitted from one person ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of public health administration 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son & Co., [1923]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/30420300R
    ... of pre- venting parasite transference. Mortality.—Death from filariasis results only occa- sionally, due to inflammation set up by the parasite in the lymphatics. It is believed, however, that the condition known ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Modern urology in original contributions by American authors (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger, 1924
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/40221170RX1
    ... milky and the patient presents the symptoms of filariasis. Treatment.—The treatment consists in excision, with an attempt to remove the affected lymphatics. SPERMATOCELE. Etiology.—Spermatoceles are true retention cysts in ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Filariasis, epidemiology, and control 
    Publication: [Noumea?] : South Pacific Area and Force, November 1944
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101708657
    ... are usually expressed in physiological disturbances of the lymphatic system. B. The parasite. Wuchereria bancrofti, the causative agent of Bancroft’s filariasis, and Wuchereria malayi, the causative agent of Malayan ...
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