Under this head is a short communication in the ‘Archiv fiir Anat. and Phys. 1862/p. 275, from Dr. A. Schneider, relating to the so-termed Spiroptera Hominis of Rudolphi, an entozoon, which, from its apparently extreme rarity, has been a puzzle to helminthologists for more than fifty years. The case in question occurred in London, and will be found described in detail by Mr. Lawrence in the ‘Medico-Chirurgical Transactions.’ It was that of a woman in St. Sepulchre’s Workhouse, and the worms were said to be passed from the urethra, and they were occasionally even drawn off through the catheter, so that no doubts with respect to deception appear to have been entertained at the time.*
Specimens, having been forwarded by Mr. Barnett to Rudolphi, are still preserved in his collection now in the Zoological Museum at Berlin, and it is these specimens which have formed the subject of Dr....
