The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . orm last summer, he found that even after carefullywashing them they caused dogs which had swallowed them to vomit,whereas the water in which the parasites had been washed had noeffect on the dogs. The Tifnia echijwcocois, a tapeworm which in one form of itsparasitic life gives rise to the condition called Hydatid cyst, alsogives off a poison, for the fluid taken from the cyst has been shownto be toxic by Debove and Humphrey, who experimented on menand animals. This explains the severe symptoms, and even death,which ma
The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . orm last summer, he found that even after carefullywashing them they caused dogs which had swallowed them to vomit,whereas the water in which the parasites had been washed had noeffect on the dogs. The Tifnia echijwcocois, a tapeworm which in one form of itsparasitic life gives rise to the condition called Hydatid cyst, alsogives off a poison, for the fluid taken from the cyst has been shownto be toxic by Debove and Humphrey, who experimented on menand animals. This explains the severe symptoms, and even death,which may follow the puncture of a cyst by tlio surgeon or its spon-taneous rupture. There is also reason to believe that the Trichinaand other parasitic worms give off poisons. At any rate, we have afruitful field of investigation open to research along these lines, andthere may be a good deal in the home remedy of the baker worm-specialist!— The American Naturalist, March 1899, pp. 247-249. Hygienic Institute, University of Berlin. Arx^.s^j\fa^.^Xct±.ffi^ delet litK. l^iivtern-Bros. ixrvp , jlHf( . c^ . Mulj. Aal . . S. 7. Vrf IV PI .IV.
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