Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals: Including Some Account of the EctozoaCobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer)
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Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals: Including Some Account of the Ectozoa
Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer)
Helminths; Parasites
Referring, in the first instance, to the hydatids of animals that have
the same mode of origin and exhibit the same general characteristics
as those found in man, I notice that four of the metropolitan museums
exhibit nine examples of liver Echinococci. The Hunterian Collection
shows specimens of this kind from the pig, monkey, zebra, and lion.
The museum at St Bartholomew’s Hospital contains two examples from the
pig and one from a cow; whilst the animal liver-hydatids preserved
in the King’s College and Guy’s Museums, respectively, are from the
pig and sheep. That from the latter is partly calcified. Respecting
animal hydatids affecting the lungs, the Cambridge Museum exhibits a
simple acephalocyst from a monkey, and the Guy’s Hospital Museum shows
a pulmonary hydatid from the kangaroo. In the museum at Oxford, Dr
Acland’s (pathological) department shows a preparation of “one large
echinococcus cyst from the abdomen of a baboon,” whilst Dr Rolleston’s
department (anatomical) displays the echinococcus itself from the
“cavity of the abdomen of the same animal.” The collection also contains
a variety of other bladder worms from different animals. The Hunterian
Museum, Lincoln’s Inn, exhibits four or five alleged examples of
hydatids from the kidney of the sheep, besides another from the spleen.
Some of these are of very doubtful character. A cystic kidney from the
sheep, preserved in the London Hospital Museum, and originally supposed
to have been due to hydatids, is (as hinted in the MS. catalogue)
certainly not of parasitic origin. In regard to the occurrence of
hydatids in the heart of animals the Hunterian series shows two good
examples from cattle, whilst the collection at University College
exhibits one taken from the wall of the left ventricle of a sow. This
was presented by Dr Elliotson.
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