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
_Exp._ 14.--On the 1st and 2nd of May portions of the left fore
extremity of the hedgehog (in which we had successfully reared Trichina
from the Middlesex-Hospital subject) were offered by Mr Simonds to a
cat. It ate the flesh very readily, consuming the entire limb. On the
15th of the following June the cat was killed, when living Trichinæ were
found within all the muscles which we examined.
_Exp._ 15.--At the same dates a young terrier dog was similarly treated,
but did not take the “feeding” so readily. In this case the left
hind extremity of the hedgehog was employed, and what was not eaten
voluntarily was forcibly introduced. On the 1st of June the dog was
attacked with “distemper,” and died on the 8th of the same month. On
examination we found several living Trichinæ in the _sterno-maxillaris_
and other muscles. Some of the parasites were encysted.
_Exp._ 16.--From the 9th to the 12th of June inclusive four separate
worm-feedings with the flesh of the trichinised terrier-dog were
administered to a crow. The bird was killed some months afterwards and
sent to me for examination. Its muscles were entirely free from Trichinæ.
_Exp._ 17.--From the 9th to the 17th of June inclusive seven separate
worm-feedings were administered to a pig. One of the “feedings” was
with the trichinised guinea-pig’s flesh, the others from the dog. This
animal was not destroyed until the 4th of April, 1866, when all the
muscles which I examined were found extensively infested with Trichinæ.
There were probably not less than 16,000,000 present, all being alive
and enclosed within perfectly-formed capsules, none of which latter
exhibited any traces of calcareous deposition.
_Exp._ 18.--Four separate feedings with trichinous dog’s flesh were
likewise, at the same dates as the foregoing, administered to a rat.
This experimental animal, however, like the one previously mentioned,
contrived to make its escape. I fear it was well trichinised.
_Exp._ 19.--About the same date trichinous “feedings” were given to
a black puppy (bred at the Veterinary College). The dog was killed
on the 18th of August, 1866, having also been made the subject of an
echinococcus-feeding, when I found abundance of encysted Trichinæ within
the voluntary muscles.
_Exp._ 20.--Four separate worm-feedings with the flesh of the
trichinised guinea-pig were given to a sheep on the 15th, 16th, 17th,
and 19th days of June, 1865. The experimental animal was destroyed on
the 29th of the same month, but the result was negative.
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