THE OCCUHREXCE OF BOTHRIOCRPHATA'S LKU'I.OIDF.S LT. l.'»l 



breadth of tlie piece ^^•as fairly uiiifonn, at one place measuring 10 

 nun. Tlie l)(xly was flcthy, reaching about 1.75 mm. at the thickest 

 part : its lateral edges were rounded. The color was whitish, slightly 

 translucent. 



On the one surface there wa« a niodinn depression rnnninf 

 througli the whole length. It was by no means sharply defined. 

 'J'he lateral halves of the body woiv. for the most part, more or less 

 reflected toward the side on which this depression lay, so that at some 

 places the cross-section would present a Y-shape. !N"umerous wrinkles, 

 mostly transverse, gave the lateral margin an uneven outline. The 

 specimen appeared as if it were swollen, but sections showed that 

 such was not the case. 



Case 11. — Jlofhr. Jifjuhidcii from the itrrflira. — Igakushi S. Saitö of 

 Kyoto reported, at one of tlie meetings of KyöN^ Medical Society, of 

 two cases of tapeworm-like pai-asite, which we have recognized as 

 Bothr. ligulodes. This report was puljlislied by one of us in Xr. 185 

 of the Chmfiai-Iji-Shinipö. One of tlie cases will be described here 

 and the other afterwards as Case A'. 



According to Saito's report, tlio patient was a man (son of a 

 farmer in Sayama Village, near Kyoto), 25 years (^f age and str(^ng in 

 b(jdy. Five years previously (1.S82) he is said to have suffered from 

 violent gonorrhoea, at one period passing blood with urine. In half 

 a year he recovered, but sometime afterwards, the desire for passino- 

 urine began to be frequent, sometimes as much as 15 or 1(! times in a 

 day. However it was only by ij-reat efforts that he could discharsfe 

 urine. Besides, he felt now and then itchiiiir ov pressin«' sensations at 

 the perina^um. This slate continued until Oct. 14th 1887, when, 

 while endeavoring for the passage of urine, a moving worm protruded 

 itself from the urethra. Mr. Ogino, a physician of the village carefully 



