. A treatise on hygiene and public health . learfluid, is a firm, white, roundish body, connected with a depression, easilyvisible on its external surface. In this body is found also a cyst, within 206 FOOD AND DRINK. which is the head of the cysticercus, inverted like the finger of a head is identical with that of the tape-worm, into which it may belater developed, whether taenia solium or saginata. Fig, 11 shows the appearance of pork containing the cysticercus oftaenia solium, and Figs. 12 and 13 the cysticercus itself—the former of natu-ral size, the latter slightly magnified. T
. A treatise on hygiene and public health . learfluid, is a firm, white, roundish body, connected with a depression, easilyvisible on its external surface. In this body is found also a cyst, within 206 FOOD AND DRINK. which is the head of the cysticercus, inverted like the finger of a head is identical with that of the tape-worm, into which it may belater developed, whether taenia solium or saginata. Fig, 11 shows the appearance of pork containing the cysticercus oftaenia solium, and Figs. 12 and 13 the cysticercus itself—the former of natu-ral size, the latter slightly magnified. The cysticercus of tsenia saginata is not essentially different from that of t»niasolium. It is somewhat smaller, and containsof course the head of the saginata. It is alsomuch shorter lived than the taenia solium. If now a portion of flesh containing eitherof these cysticerci is taken into the stomachof man, the embryo is speedily released fromits c^st by solution of its envelope; it fastensitself by means of its suckers upon the intes-.
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