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Imbroglio of an Arab with the Kaed of Bonjem. Description of the Fort of Bonjem. The Disease of the Filaria Medinensis, and its Cure. My Journal confused and fragmentary. Route from Bonjem to Misratah. Enter the regions of Rain and Open Culture. Bughalah, or the Rock, where Abd-El-Geleel was assassinated. Wells of Daymoum and Namwah. Sudden changes of Temperature in North Africa.
Do not confuse this Filaria with the Guinea worm, Filaria medinensis, which runs up to ten and twelve feet in length, and whose habits are different. It appears commonly in its human host's leg, and rapidly grows, curled round and round like a watch-spring, showing raised under the skin.
Their patient was a German who had been in this country five years. There are only about 100 of these cases on record, most of them being in Bavaria and Switzerland. The Dracunculus medinensis or Guinea-worm is a widely-spread parasite in parts of Africa and the West Indies. According to Osler several cases have occurred in the United States.
He has definite information with regard to bubonic plague and the filaria medinensis. Here and there one finds striking anticipations of what are supposed to be modern observations. Nothing was too small for his notice. One portion of the fourth book is on cosmetics, in which he treats the affections of the hair and of the nails.
Of these entozoa, the Filaria medinensis, or Guinea-worm, which burrows in the cellular tissue under the skin, is well known in the north of the island, but rarely found in the damper districts of the south and west.
It passed us, burying one of my camels. As soon as we rose from the earth, with uplifted hands for its preservation, we awoke to fresh horrors. Its parching tongue had lapped the water from our water-skins, and having escaped the fiery hour, we had to fear the still more awful death of thirst." This disease is the Filaria Medinensis, or Guinea Worm.
I should, I may remark, strongly advise any one who likes to start early on a canoe journey to see that no native member of the party has a Filaria medinensis on hand; for winding it up is always reserved for a morning job and as many other jobs are similarly reserved it makes for delay.
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