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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

O’NEILL, John

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1875

#5344.10

On the presence of a Filaria in “craw-craw”.

O’NEILL, John

In 1874, while examining skin snips from craw-craw patients in Ghana, during his service on the H. M. S. Decoy, the Irish surgeon O’Neill discovered the subcutaneous microfilaria. This was the earliest known visual id…