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. 6._--A young heifer calf, of six months. Fed Oct. 18th, 1873,
with the mature proglottides of a large beef tapeworm. No symptoms.
Slaughtered several months afterwards. Result stated to have been
negative. Unfortunately I was not present at the autopsy.
_Exp. 7._--A young heifer. First fed May 19th, 1874, with the joints of
a tapeworm, and again on June 12th. No apparent ill effects resulted,
but the animal died in October. At the post-mortem examination, made
by Prof. Simonds, no parasites were observed. Subsequently I found
calcareous specks in the liver which proved to be degenerated measles.
_Exp. 8._--A calf. Fed on or about March 24th, 1875, with sexually
mature joints. The calf was put to and remained with a foster mother
until it died from disease of the larynx on the 15th of the following
July. The animal was ill-treated by its foster parent, and at the
post-mortem I observed a large intercostal cicatrix, evidently
the result of injury. In this case I devoted several hours to the
exploration of the muscles and viscera. Not a trace of the _Cysticercus
bovis_ could be found in the muscles or connective tissues, but the
liver contained scores of perfectly developed measles, besides hundreds
of others in various stages of calcareous degeneration. On comparing
some of the latter with those I had obtained from the preceding
experiment the pathological appearances were at once seen to be
identical. It was easy to find and pick out the measles in their cysts
from the naturally friable liver. I also detected four Cysticerci in the
lungs, two of which had degenerated. Microscopic examination confirmed
my interpretation of the naked-eye appearances.
[Illustration: FIG. 22.--Section of the heart of a calf infested by
cestode larvæ. After Mosler.]
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