Tapeworms and threadworms (human entozoa) : their sources, nature and treatment / by T.Spencer Cobbold.

  • Thomas Spencer Cobbold
Date:
1867
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    THE TRIPLE-CROWNED TAPEWORM. {Tarda acanthotrias.) The existence of this species is founded upon the circumstance of a cestoid larva, with three rows of hooks, having been detected in the human body. Dr. Weinland, of Frankfort, when visiting America in 1858, examined a specimen of supposed cysticercus cellulosce pre- served in the collection of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. This parasite was taken £ from a woman about fifty years of age, who died of phthisis, [being afterwards] a dis- secting-room subject at Eichmond, Virginia. About a dozen or fifteen of the cysts were found in the cellular membrane of the muscles, and in the integuments, besides one which hung free from the inner surface of the dura mater, near the crista galli. In the same subject there were also numerous specimens of Trichina spiralis.' This specimen was presented by Dr. Jeffries Wyman, and an account of the case was first published in 1857. It remained, however, for Dr. Weinland to make the curious E
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