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surrounded with a dusky red areola, was two and a half lines 

 in diameter and one and a half line high. This tumour, which 

 Sichel removed with scissors, constituted a very thick-walled 

 cyst, in which lay concealed a Cysticercus cellulose, with the 

 head and neck retracted. In a second case, a gendarme, 

 46 years old, was affected with a tumour, the size of a bean, 

 in the inner angle of the left eye, covered by the reddened 

 conjunctiva, and partly concealed by the caruncula lachry- 

 malis. The soldier had first remarked this swelling fifteen 

 days before, having four months previously suffered from a 

 foreign body getting into the eye and exciting inflammation. 

 After the operation performed by Sichel, the cyst, which 

 was also thick-coated, exhibited the same contents as that 

 in the former case. The third case was that of a girl, six 

 and a half years of age, in whose right eye her mother had 

 remarked, for fifteen days, a swelling, one and a half line 

 from the edge of the cornea, and which was concealed beneath 

 the upper eyelid. The conjunctiva was also in this case 

 locally injected, and the cyst thin, since its contents, which 

 were afterwards removed by the extirpation, were visible 

 through it, like a white spot (the retracted head and neck 

 of the worm). Cunier (Annales d'Oculistique, torn, vi, 

 p. 277 ; or Rayer, Archives de Med. Comp. 1. c. p. 130) also 

 gives the account of a tumour with Cysticercus ceUulosce, 

 under the conjunctiva at the outer angle of the eye of a 

 Hound. No traumatic injury had in this case preceded the 

 affection ; but Cunier, about five months before, had intro- 

 duced, under the eyelids of the Dog, pus taken from a 

 soldier affected with purulent ophthalmia, by which a blcnor- 

 rhcea, was produced, which had been suppressed by a solution 

 of nitrate of silver. 



Bendz (Isis, 1844, p. 814) examined several individuals 

 of a Cysticercus, found byProf. Hausmaun, of Hanover, under 

 the skin of a dropsical mole (Talpa europsea), and the largest 

 of which were from two to three lines long. Bendz remarked 

 at the bottom of the caudal vesicle [the part opposite to the 

 head] several small roundish projections, of different sizes 



