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Some time ago Dr.Bell sent some of the 1-tomes so common

here in pigs to the Liverpool School of Tronical Medicine

and he tells me that Dr. Looss of Cairo who examined them is

before me in the discovery that they are fasciolopsis husk i

and he showed me Dr.Iooss article in the Annals of Tronical

Medicine and Parasito10py. I am anxious to acknowledge the

priority but Dr.Looss does not mention that the parasites

he described as fasciclopsis huski came fror rizs though !

have no doubt that they did so and were sent by Dr. Re11,

It will be news to helmintologists that fasciolopsis huski

is the same as a common rasite of pigs but the Colonial

Veterinary Surgeon Mr.Gibson has suspected that this

for some time (CVS. report 1900)

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is so, though he has had no specimens but only book descrip-

-tions of the human parasite with which to compare those

found in pies.

Fasciolopsis buski would appear from hooks to he a very

rare parasite. Max Braun's book published in 1906 save that

the worm has only been observed in the intestine of man

and that sever cases represent the literature. However I have

met two Doctors who have had cases and I suspect that its

rarity at the Hongkong Mortuary may he due to the fact that

pigs are not kept in the Town. Most Chinese villages however

swarm with pigs.

OPISTHORCHIS SINENSIS

An article on log cases of Opisthorchis sirensis infection

of man was written in December for the Journal of Tropical