. Eleven miscellaneous papers on animal parasites. Parasites. 56 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. So far as we have learned, no new cases in man appear to have ])oen reported since 1888, although the parasite has been mentioned in a number of medical and zoological works. According- to several authors, Sonsino has reported the same worm from the jackal (Canl>< aureus). Sonsino's paper is not accessible to us. All other references found are based upon the observations of Manson, Cobbold, Leuckart, and Ijima & Murata, reviewed above. The Japanese papers Ave are unable to read, but the more i
. Eleven miscellaneous papers on animal parasites. Parasites. 56 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. So far as we have learned, no new cases in man appear to have ])oen reported since 1888, although the parasite has been mentioned in a number of medical and zoological works. According- to several authors, Sonsino has reported the same worm from the jackal (Canl>< aureus). Sonsino's paper is not accessible to us. All other references found are based upon the observations of Manson, Cobbold, Leuckart, and Ijima & Murata, reviewed above. The Japanese papers Ave are unable to read, but the more important facts contained in them appear in the English paper by Ijima & Murata. SPURIOUS PARASITISM DUE TO PARTIALLY DKJESTEI) BANANAS. By Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D., Pathologist of Bureau of Animal Industry, Albert Hassall, M. R. C. V. S., Acting Assistant Zoologist of Bureau of Animal Industry. [Figures 37-38.] This laboratory- receives numerous specimens of parasites which phj^sicians in various parts of the country forward for determination. Not infrequently structures of various kinds are submitted to us as parasites which, in reality, are not of parasitic nature, but represent partially digested plant fibers of various kinds, and hair, clots, etc. Quite recently two physi- cians have sent specimens which are identical with speci- mens received upon several former occasions. In former determinations of these partic- . ular objects we have contented ourselves by replying that the structures in question, which bear a superficial resemblance to minute tapeworms, were cells from some plant. In the last two cases received the objects were examined more closely, and they were determined to be tissues from a banana—a determmation which has been confirmed by Dr. Erwin Smith and Mr. Albert F. Woods, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The objects in question, when submitted, represented dark-brown to black fibers, which looked as if they were segmented like a tapeworm,. Fig. 37.
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