On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body (Volume 1); A Manual of Their Natural History, Diagnosis, and Treatment (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Special Part. The Cestode worms occur in man either only in the mature state, and then in the human intestine (Bothrioeephalus latus; Ttenia mediocanellata; Ttenia nana; and if the Ttenia of the Hottentots, mentioned under 3, is not a mere variety of Ttenia mediocanellata, probably this also); or only in the larva or scolex state (Cysticercus visceralis autorum seu tenuicollis, according to Eschricht; Echinococcus veterinorum seu scoliclpariens and E. hominis seu altricipariens); or lastly, in all known stages of development (Ttenia solium and Cysticercus celluloste). First OrderBothrioccphali Dibothria. Cesloidea 2 osculis suctoriis aut 2 foveis marginalibus, oblong is aut longitudinalibusoppositisinstructa. Cupite subtetragono, depresso, articulato plerumque, inermi. Pori genitaks omnium articulorum in linea mediana animalis et in ejus superficie abdominali sili. Scolices extra tubum intestinalem in cyslidibus peculiaribus ad vermium platycercorum modum, aut in tubo intestinali animalium minorum aquaticorum statu immaturo viventes; Strobilx in tubo intestinali animalium aquaticorum rapacium, avium maritimarum et mammalium viventes; Proglottides verte interdum absunt, interdum adsunt, sepissime in longa articulorum serie conjunclte dehiscentes. Embryones sex hamulis armali; ovulorum testte sepissime coloratte. Of this division, which is particularly abundantly represented in predaceous fishes, and more sparingly in piscivorous birds, especially the marine Raptores, examples occur in but few mammalia. Thus Creplin once saw two young, small Bothrio- cephali in the intestine of a cat in Greifswald; Natterer found them in Brazil in Felis malivora and Procyon lotor; Fischer in Phoca monachus; and Schilling in Phocafaetida. Of the terrestrial mammalia inhabiting inlan...