Elements of pathological anatomy . 116 ]\\ containing the hydatids was developed in the brain; it was of a large size, and weighed upwards of two pounds. The walls of the right ventricle, inwhich it was situated, were so attenuated as to be scarcely a line and a half in thickness. The name byFig. 81. which this genus is desig- nated, has reference to therounded form of the body, andto the little asperities on itssurface. The fifth genus, the acepha-locystis (Fig. 31), by far themost interesting and commonof all, was founded by Laen-nec, who published a veryaccurate account of it, in 1
Elements of pathological anatomy . 116 ]\\ containing the hydatids was developed in the brain; it was of a large size, and weighed upwards of two pounds. The walls of the right ventricle, inwhich it was situated, were so attenuated as to be scarcely a line and a half in thickness. The name byFig. 81. which this genus is desig- nated, has reference to therounded form of the body, andto the little asperities on itssurface. The fifth genus, the acepha-locystis (Fig. 31), by far themost interesting and commonof all, was founded by Laen-nec, who published a veryaccurate account of it, in 1804,in his excellent Memoir onVesicular Worms. Occur-ring both in the human sub-ject and in many of the infe-rior animals, the individualsof this class of parasites infestsome organs much more fre-quently than others. They seem to have a remarkable predilection for the liver,owing, probably, to some peculiarity of structure favorable to their brain, ovary, uterus, mammary gland, spleen, and kidney are also some-times their seat; in
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