Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals: Including Some Account of the Ectozoa — John Shaqi
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
The new anatomical facts made out by me bear reference principally to
the reproductive apparatus. What else I have observed is for the most
part confirmatory of the statements made by Mr Busk. In particular,
his brief account of the position and character of the digestive
organs was not only confirmed by my earlier examinations, but is now
re-verified. In the representation given in my ‘Introduction’ I showed
in dotted outline two large organs which I supposed to be the testes.
I distinctly observed radiating lines proceeding from the centre in
each; but I could not discover the slightest trace of any limiting
border to either organ. I now found in the same position two nearly
circular flattened masses with clearly defined limits (_i_, _k_). No
doubt could be entertained as to the testicular character of the lower
organ (_k_). In the original drawing I further indicated the presence
of a third and much smaller globular mass, which I termed the ovary;
but what I supposed to represent this organ in the particular specimen
from which the accompanying illustration was drawn turns out to be
merely a hernial protrusion resulting from injury (_h_). The radiating,
broad, and branching seminal ducts are beautifully distinct in one of
my specimens, forming the most attractive feature of the parasite’s
organisation (_k_). In consequence of injury to the specimen which is
here drawn, the upper testis (_i_) displays no seminal tubes. I made out
the female reproductive organs with more completeness. In the outline
drawing given in my introductory treatise I had indicated the probable
position of the uterine folds; reducing the organ to the simplest
expression of what I concluded must obtain in the normal condition. My
conjecture was perfectly correct. The uterus consists of irregularly
folded tubes, which, though here and there apparently branching from
a central tube, are in reality folded evenly upon themselves. The
oviduct can be distinctly traced to its outlet in the reproductive
papilla, which, as usual in true Distomes, is placed in the middle line,
immediately above the ventral sucker. In my examination of Mr. Busk’s
original specimens I could not find the slightest trace of vitelligene
organs; but in my fresh examples I not only obtained proof that these
organs were largely developed, but that their limitations could be fixed
with accuracy (_g g_). They consisted of two large elongated masses, one
on either side of the body, occupying about two thirds of the entire
length of the parasite. Their yolk-vesicles were distinctly seen; but
the main efferent canals were only here and there traceable. Clearly,
the position and character of the yolk-forming glands of this large
human fluke are quite unlike those of any of its congeners. This fluke
is a remarkably fine species, and, when viewed in the fresh state with
a powerful pocket-lens, presents a most striking appearance. I did not
observe any cutaneous spines. I found the eggs to present an average
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