The parasites of meat and prepared flesh food : two lectures illustrated with ten woodcuts, together with an appendix containing a descriptive catalogue of one hundred drawings of parasites exhibited in the South Gallery, class VIII., No. 206 / by T Spencer Cobbold.

  • Thomas Spencer Cobbold
Date:
1884
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Credit: The parasites of meat and prepared flesh food : two lectures illustrated with ten woodcuts, together with an appendix containing a descriptive catalogue of one hundred drawings of parasites exhibited in the South Gallery, class VIII., No. 206 / by T Spencer Cobbold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at) AT PE INDEX. Special Catalogue of Drawings of Parasites exhibited on six sheets in the South Gallery; Class VIIL., No, 206. NoTE.—The source of every illustration is correctly given in this catalogue. Where no authority is quoted, the illustration is under- stood to be original and from nature. Most of the drawings have been executed by Miss Cobbold and myself. Leow G: 74, Portsdown Road, London, Fune i, 1884. SHEET Noor, TRICHINA AND TRICHINOSIS. Fig. 1. Portion of trichinised flesh from a rabbit as seen under the microscope. It shows Trichinz recently encysted, each cyst or capsule containing a single worm. From Pagenstecher. C. S.C. (in part). Magnified 400 diameters. Fig. 2. Portion of human muscle, showing several lemon-shaped cap- sules that are nearly uniform in size, and completely calcified. Magnified 300 diameters. Fig. 3. A solitary capsule from human muscle, with its contained Trichina spirally coiled. After Bristowe and Rainey. C.S.C. (in part). Magnified about 850 diameters. Fig. 4. Two polytrichinous capsules found in American pork. The cyst to the left shows two worms, and that to the right seven worms. Drawn in one figure from separate illustrations by M. Chatin, whose examinations of infected meat were made at Havre, in April 1881. Here enlarged to about 1,000 diameters. Fig. 5. Group of abnormal Trichina capsules. Two of the cysts are united, so as to form one compound, hourglass-shaped, bilocular capsule, of which the lower division contains two worms, and the upper division three worms. On one side of this compound cyst is a smaller, narrow, curved, spindle- shaped, unilocular capsule, containing a single worm. From American pork. After M. Chatin, Havre Laboratory, June 1881. Highly magnified.
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