EOSINOPHILIA IN BILHARZIA DISEASE AND DRACONTIASIS 59 Table of Results.—For convenience of reference I place the accepted normal percentages in the table (Table I.)

Table I.—Cases of Bilharzia Disease.

r Remarks Percentage of various Leucocytes Eosino¬ philes Poly¬ morpho¬ nuclears Lympho¬ cytes Large mono¬ nuclears Basophiles Normal 2 to 4 70*75 15*25 6*8 0*5 1 Bilharzia of Egyptian soldier, Omdurman 18*0 49*0 12*6 20*4 Bilharzia cases the rectum 2 Bilharzia of Egyptian soldier, Omdurman 14*0 28*6 46*4 11*0 0*6 the rectum 3 Bilharzia of Egyptian soldier, Omdurman 18*4 35*8 33*6 12*2 0*2 the bladder r ■ t Y« $, It will be seen that there was a very decided increase of coarse-grained eosinophiles, and though the number of cases is very small, too small to furnish any definite conclusions, it is interesting to observe that the average percentage works out at 16*8, while in Captain Douglas’s and Major Hardy’s 50 cases it was 16*486. As is mentioned by them there is also a proportional diminution in the percentage of the polymorphonuclears, and curiously enough in the one case (No. 1) in which there is a marked increase of the large mononuclears there is a diminution of the lymphocytes, a point to which they also draw attention. In the remaining two cases there is an increase in the lymphocytes.

Table II.—Guinea-worm Cases.

No. Cases Remarks Percentage of various Leucocytes _ r~ c r Eosino¬ philes Poly¬ morpho¬ nuclears Lympho¬ cytes Large mono¬ nuclears A Basophiles 1 Greek, Om-In foot, much induration . . 16*0 51*0 22*0 11*0 — durman • la Same man, Worm had been wholly re-15*2 42*0 27*8 15*0 — Khartoum moved two weeks before this examination Guinea-worm 2 Egyptian Worm had been wholly re-13*4 52*8 24-4 9*4 - cases soldier, Ommoved two days before durman ‘ examination. Induration was still present in the foot 3 Sudanese, In foot; malaria, but no 34*4 36;0 13*0 16*6 , — Khartoum rise of temperature 4 Sudanese, In foot; malaria, but no 36*6 31*2 16*4 15*4 0*6 Khartoum rise of temperature