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Onchocerciasis in a European
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CORRESPONDENCE.
ONCHOCERCIASIS
IN A EUROPEAN.
To the Editor of the TRANSACTIONS of the Royal Society of Tropical ~Iedicine and Hygiene.
SIR, At the Clinical and Laboratory Meeting of the Society held at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, on 20th November, 1930, I showed an Onchocerca volvulus tumour removed from a patient who had just returned from the West Coast of Africa (Tran s. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hyg., 1931, xxiv, p. 370). I did not state there that the patient was a white man, born in England, and it was only at the Clinical and Laboratory Meeting of the Society held on 19th November, 1931, that, on discussing the subject with Dr. DYCE SHARPE, he informed me that this was a very rare condition in Europeans, and that he himself had never seen a case. I think it well, therefore to draw attention to my case again, and place the occurrence on record. I am, Sir, Yours, etc., G. CARMICHAEL LOW.
CORRESPONDENCE.
ONCHOCERCIASIS
IN A EUROPEAN.
To the Editor of the TRANSACTIONS of the Royal Society of Tropical ~Iedicine and Hygiene.
SIR, At the Clinical and Laboratory Meeting of the Society held at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, on 20th November, 1930, I showed an Onchocerca volvulus tumour removed from a patient who had just returned from the West Coast of Africa (Tran s. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hyg., 1931, xxiv, p. 370). I did not state there that the patient was a white man, born in England, and it was only at the Clinical and Laboratory Meeting of the Society held on 19th November, 1931, that, on discussing the subject with Dr. DYCE SHARPE, he informed me that this was a very rare condition in Europeans, and that he himself had never seen a case. I think it well, therefore to draw attention to my case again, and place the occurrence on record. I am, Sir, Yours, etc., G. CARMICHAEL LOW.