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Worms. VI. Vol. IV. No. 89., INTESTINE WORMS., Fig. 1. The Tape-Worm. (Taenia solium.), V V e fee hère represented an inhabitant of the human body which very osten causes long and painful difeafes. It is the Tape-worm or the jointed worm (fig* î.) vvhicli iives in the inteftines of men. It is feldom or vvith great difficulty driven out of its residence, as medi. cmes generally only fever the weakly jointed members without faurting the head which remains undisturbed in the body. This worm has like its cougeners the form of a ri band, The little head in the form of a button, is placed on the small end, and from that end the oblong members of the body begin to grow broader. Every one of these junctures has a foid by which it is joined to the next. From the head runs a canal through the body and continues down to the round end of the tail, provided with many small lateral canals bv which the circulation of the humours is * performed. Fig. a. represents the enlarged head in front. In its middle relis the. fpiral fûout, whi-;h, when obferved from the fide (&), fornis a conic élévation or protubérance furrounded with two indented rings. Round the fnout four small élévations are situated, provided in the middle with infundibuliform concavities by which the chyle is conducted in the small lateral canals. The Tape-worm is on account of the form of its body sometimes also called the Gourd-worm., Fig. 2. The Polycephalus. (Polycephalus hominis.), The true arrangement of the Polyce phalus is in the clals of the lîydatides; Il occurs, though very feldom, in the brains of men. The bladders are of a yellowish colour and of a fmooth but thick and coriaceous fubftance. There are some of the size of a wall-nut, others sometimes as big as a fift. These bladders (Fig. 2.) generally contain 5, 10, 20 and even fifty of these worm;, They bore vvith their fmooth piviforra body so far into the bladder that notlîing but the indented crown or ring is to be feen. In Fig. d. we fee two fuç. h worms which however only with their forepart stick to the bladder. Fig. e. dispîays the piriform figure along with the indented crown of a Polycephalus when taken from the bladder.
