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
BIBLIOGRAPHY (No. 22).--_Bastian, H. C._, “On the Anatomy of the
Nematoids,” ‘Phil. Trans.,’ 1866, p. 545.--_Bellingham, O. B._, “On the
frequency of _Trichocephalus dispar_ in the Human Intestines,” ‘Rep.
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1838; see also Bibliog. No. 33 (and the biography of Bellingham by
Dr Mapother, in ‘Dubl. Jrn. Med. Sci.,’ 1877, p. 471).--_Busk, G._,
“Anat. of _T. dispar_,” ‘Ann. Nat. Hist.,’ vol. vii, 1841.--_Chiaje_,
sul _Tricocephalo disparo_, &c., 1836.--_Cobbold_, ‘Entozoa,’ pp.
69 and 329.--_Idem_, ‘Worms,’ pp. 31 and 67.--_Davaine_, l. c., p.
205.--_Idem_, ‘Compt. Rend.,’ 1858, p. 1217, and ‘Journ. de Physiol.,’
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_Filaria Bancrofti_, Cobbold.--The history of the discovery of this
entozoon is second only in interest to that of _Trichina spiralis_. Step
by step the facts have been evolved by a slow process of observation,
and from the data thus afforded a tolerably connected narrative of the
probable life-cycle of this entozoon may now be offered. To place
matters beyond all doubt much remains to be done; yet that which has
been accomplished is, or ought to be, of surpassing interest alike to
the physician, the scientific pathologist, the epidemiologist, and the
philosophic naturalist. In the case of Trichina, Owen’s nomenclature was
most properly allowed to stand; but for reasons stated below I have not
hesitated to employ for this worm, in its adult state, a name differing
from that originally given to the hæmatozoon which turns out to be its
representative larval state. Although the male parasite is at present
unknown, the following characters will in the meantime suffice for a
diagnosis of the species:--Body capillary, smooth, uniform in thickness.
Head with a simple circular mouth, destitute of papillæ. Neck narrow,
about one third of the width of the body. Tail of female simple, bluntly
pointed; reproductive outlet close to the head; anus immediately above
the tip of the tail. Length of largest females, 3-1/2 in.; breadth,
1/90″; embryos, 1/200″ to 1/125″ in length, by 1/3000″ to 1/2250″ in
breadth; eggs, averaging 1/1000″ by 1/1650″ from pole to pole.
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