Eleven miscellaneous papers on animal parasites / [Ch. Wardell Stiles and others].

Date:
1902
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Credit: Eleven miscellaneous papers on animal parasites / [Ch. Wardell Stiles and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    authors, So„»i„o has roport«! t\ a, o t™ ft^ttA iT^™' Sonsino's paper i» not accessible to u-< ^ '1 ^^^ found are based upon the observatiot o Ma, on 7 TV a.id Ijinm & Murata, reviewed above Thl T 'Le'-kart, in the Jinglish ijapor by Ijinia & Muiuta. SPURIOUS PAHASITISM ..UE TO |.AKT.ALLV W«ESTE1. BANANA.S. By Cii. VVardell Stilkh, Ph. D., Pathologist of Bureau of Animal Indmlry, AND Albert Hassall, M. R. C. V. S., Acting Assistant Zoologist of Bureau of Animal Industry. [Figures 37-38.] This laboratory receives numerous specimens of parasites which physicians in various parts of the country forward foi determination. Not infrequently structures of various kinds are submitted to us a^ parasites which, in reality, are not of parasitic nature, but represent partially digested plant fibers of various kinds, and hair, clots, etc. Quite recentl}^ two phj'^si- cians have sent specimens which are identical with speci- mens received upon several former occasions. In former determinations of these partic- ular objects we have contented ■f ■ ourselves by replying that the Fig. 37.-A portion of banana found in the stool. structures in question whioh Enlarged. Original. , , ' ' bear a superficial resemblance to minute tapeworms, were cells from some plant. In the last two cases received the objects were examined more closely, and they were •determined to be tissues from a banana—a determination which has been confirmed by Dr. Erwin Smith and xMr. Albert F. Woods, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The objects in question, when submitted, represented dark-brown to black fibers, which looked as if they were segmented like a tapeworm,