. The dog in health and in disease : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education, and general management in health, and his treatment in disease. Dogs. INTERNAL PARASITES OR WORMS. 349 The following are found in the dog: T(£nia mar- ginata^ T. ctccumerina, T. ser- rata, T. echinococcus^ T. so- lium, and Bothriocephalus la- tus, the last two being common to man and the dog. The first three are the most common: T. fnarginata, the intermediate host of which is the sheep, may attain a length of eight to ten feet; T. cucu- inerhia, the most common, ten to twenty inches in length,
. The dog in health and in disease : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education, and general management in health, and his treatment in disease. Dogs. INTERNAL PARASITES OR WORMS. 349 The following are found in the dog: T(£nia mar- ginata^ T. ctccumerina, T. ser- rata, T. echinococcus^ T. so- lium, and Bothriocephalus la- tus, the last two being common to man and the dog. The first three are the most common: T. fnarginata, the intermediate host of which is the sheep, may attain a length of eight to ten feet; T. cucu- inerhia, the most common, ten to twenty inches in length, with a very small head, the segments getting very gradually larger from before backward ; T. ser- rata, intermediate host the hare and rabbit, twenty to forty inches in length. To illustrate how tape-worm is propagated and how one ani- mal may prove a source of dis- ease to many, we may mention that a larval or immature form {Coenurus cerebralis) of a tape- worm exists in the sheep's brain. If this be taken into the dog's stomach it develops fig. ^nia solium (Stonk- into a mature tape-worm, the ^ c, generative orifice; e, water vascu- eggS of W^hich, if swallowed by lar canals ; g, ovarian duct; h, ovarian receptacle ; i, branched the sheep in drinking-water, 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 Mills, Wesley, 1847-1915. New York : D. Appleton
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