Filaria loa, a nematode peculiar to Africa, is rarely found in this country. Because of this fact, and by virtue of the startling appearance of the parasite under the bulbar conjunctiva, the following case may deserve detailed commentation.
REPORT OF A CASE
History.—M. L., a white man, aged 48, was admitted to the clinic of Dr. Bernard Samuels at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary with the sole complaint that he had "a worm in the right eye." The patient was of French extraction, an inhabitant of Africa, and a sailor by trade. He stated that he had suffered from malaria in 1914 and amebic dysentery in 1918. No other illnesses were recalled. He denied excessive use of alcohol, drugs or tobacco. During 1920 he was employed in the French Cameroons as a hunter of mahogany. On his trips into the interior he drank only filtered water