. Animal parasites and messmates. Parasites. TEANSMIGRATIONS AND METAMORPHOSES. 243 in which he said that nervous tarantism existed during two centuries in Europe, as an epidemic malady. According to him, there pre- vails at present in the province of Tigre, in Abyssinia, a sort of chorea, or endemic musico- mania, which has a great ana- logy with tarantism; it is the "; Nothing but music and dancing can have any beneficial effect during the crisis; but these means would evidently be inefficacious in trichiniasis. The Trichina is a nematode worm, and not an insect, as it wa
. Animal parasites and messmates. Parasites. TEANSMIGRATIONS AND METAMORPHOSES. 243 in which he said that nervous tarantism existed during two centuries in Europe, as an epidemic malady. According to him, there pre- vails at present in the province of Tigre, in Abyssinia, a sort of chorea, or endemic musico- mania, which has a great ana- logy with tarantism; it is the "; Nothing but music and dancing can have any beneficial effect during the crisis; but these means would evidently be inefficacious in trichiniasis. The Trichina is a nematode worm, and not an insect, as it was at first called. Let us imagine an extremely slender pin, such as entomologists employ to fasten the smallest insects, rolled upon itself in a spiral form so as. Fig. 70.—Trichina. I 1 wmm Fig. 71.—Trichina, rolled up in a muscle. to lodge in a cavity hollowed out in the midst of the muscles, in a space not larger than a grain of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beneden, M. van (Pierre Joseph), 1809-1894. New York, D. Appleton and Co.
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