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On the mesentery, throughout, were a number of cysticerci 
scattered, but none of them being in clusters. 
Perhaps the most remarkable condition was that found in the 
pelvic cavity and along the course of the uterus and fallopian 
tubes, in the folds of the broad ligaments and the ovaries them- 
selves. These show particularly well in the photograph. 
The fascia covering the dorso-lumbar region presented great 
numbers of these cysticerci of different sizes. In the left psoas 
muscles were 4 to 5 small cysticerci, three of them without caudal 
vesicle, and scolex of a cheesy consistency. The vesicle having 
burst and been absorbed, causing degeneration of the remaining 
parts, | tried to ascertain if the head, with its hooklets and 
suckers, was still intact ; but pressure between the glass destroyed 
it, and found hooklets scattered. ‘The ovaries were about theit 
normal size, but the shape was somewhat altered, firm to the 
feeling and having the appearance of a tubercular mass. The 
right and left ovaries were practically identical in size, shape, 
and consistency. Something like 20 to 25 could be counted on 
the surface, all of them small; some not much larger than the 
head of a pin, existing as shiny white spots. On making an 
incision through the ovary, the following condition was noted: 
that the medullary portion of the ovary was wholly free from 
eysticerci, while in the cortical portion the cysticerci were very 
numerous, those nearer the surface of the organ being larger. 
Notwithstanding the close proximity of the cysts in this organ, 
each cysticercus was separate and distinct from its neighbor. 
The hydatids along the course of the fallopian tubes were es- 
pecially numerous and large, existing as a continuous chain, with 
a group of large ones attached to the folds of the broad ligament 
between the ovary and fallopian tubes, which cover the par- 
ovarium, and extending from the ligament by a slender neck. | 
was under the impression at first, on finding the cysts in the 
ovary, that they were of a different species of embryo than those 
found elsewhere; but a careful microscopical examination, made 
immediately after the photographs were taken, showed them to 
be the same as the others: Cysticercus tennicollis, the progenitor 
of the Taenia marginata., 
The Autopsy of the Second Mule Deer.—The cysticerci were 
found in greater numbers, of larger size and more widely dis- 
tributed, hardly any organ being free of them. I found them on 
lungs, costal pleura, diaphragm, liver, mesentery, peritoneum, 
and serous covering of intestines. Upon the gastro-colic omentum 
| counted over 50 cysts. 
