Abstract
ABSTRACT The small oval parasites, known under the name of Leishman-Donovan bodies (although they appear to have been first found by D. D. Cunningham in Dehli boil) were described last year as occurring in the enlarged spleens of patients dying of chronic fever with marked cachexia by Leishmau, who considered them to be degenerate trypanosomes, because he found somewhat similar bodies form with a large and a small chromatine mass in the spleens of rats which had died forty-eight hours before of trypanosomiasis due to the organisms of tsetse fly disease. Donovan, working in Madras, found similar bodies in blood obtained fresh from patients suffering from this fever, thus proving that those seen by Leishman were not degenerate trypanosomes, and Laveran, after examining Donovan’s specimens, came to the conclusion that the parasite was apiroplasma. Ross, Nuttall, and Manson have all dissented from this view, and regard the organism as probably belonging to a new genus. Christophers suggests that it is a microsporidium.1
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