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
In dealing with this class of hosts, exclusive of man, I shall notice
the entozoa of the various orders successively, taking the arrangement
which I employed many years since when writing the Mammalian Division of
a popular treatise called the ‘Museum of Natural History.’ The internal
parasites of those orders which happen to embrace important domesticated
animals will necessarily receive more attention than the others; some
notice of the ectozoa being likewise added.
PART I.--QUADRUMANA (Monkeys).
Monkeys are less afflicted with flukes than most animals. The
species known to me are _Distoma laciniatum_, found by Brongniart
in the pancreas of _Simia maimon_; _D. orbiculare_ and _Amphistoma
emarginatum_, from the intestines of _Cebus trivirgatus_; and
_Bilharzia hæmatobia_, a single specimen of which I obtained from
_Cercopithecus fuliginosus_. The monkeys of the Old World rarely harbor
full-grown tapeworms, but Cysticerci are abundant (_Cyst. tenuicollis_,
_C. cellulosa_, _C. pileatus_, _C. crispus_). The common hydatid
(_Echinococcus polymorphus_) has been found in many of the Simiæ, and
by myself in a Madagascar lemur (_L. macaco_). Dr Leidy also obtained
three hydatid cysts from a large monkey. On the last day of the year
1857 I obtained some polycephalous hydatids (_Cœnurus lemuris_) from
a ring-tailed lemur. They infested the liver, being more abundant in
the lungs. They occupied both sides of the chest. Loose and detached
specimens also existed in the cavity of the right pleura. Most of
those occupying the chest were connected to the pleura, forming
vesicular, semi-transparent masses, varying in size from a filbert
to a large walnut, many being united in bundles of much larger size.
One of these masses is here drawn (1, fig. 54). It consists of four
large Cœnuri, their combined pedicles forming a single stalk. A fifth
hour-glass-shaped rudimentary Cœnurus is also visible. Every Cœnurus
supports a variable number of lobules, each lobe supporting one or more
papillæ. Here and there the papillæ resemble chains of beads. No trace
of tapeworm heads could be seen, but under a half-inch objective glass,
I found some flat papillæ presenting oval depressions at the surface
(2, fig. 54). On examining some of the larger papillæ they were found
to consist of membranous layers folded one within the other. These
were carefully dissected and examined with the aid of needles, when
each one showed in the centre a well-formed tapeworm head with four
characteristic suckers, and a prominent rostellum supporting a double
coronet of hooks, thirty-two of the latter in all (3, fig. 54). The
hooks displayed a marked disparity of size and form. Each hook showed
conspicuous anterior and posterior root-processes, the larger set of
hooks individually measuring about 1/225″ and the smaller 1/330″ in
length (4, fig. 54). There were numerous calcareous corpuscles. The
interior of each vesicle was filled with a fluid, in which there were
no free scolices.
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