232 ANIMAL PARASITES. 



CYSTICERCUS VESICLE HOMINIS (Creplin). 



In Miiller's ' Archiv/ 1840, p. 149, Creplin reports that, in the 

 f SanitatsberichtedesKb'nigl.Medic-colligiuffiSvonPommem' (1835, 

 2 semest., p. 52), Dr. Weitenkampf, of Earth, mentions the case of 

 a young woman, twenty-two years of age, in whom, after taking 

 cold, loss of voice, pains in the bronchi and in the larynx, &c., 

 occurred, and from whom hydatids, from the size of a pea to that 

 of a hazel-nut, were evacuated with strangury in considerable 

 quantities every five or six days, for several months. As Creplin 

 supposed these to be hydatids, he made inquiry of Weitenkampf, 

 and received for answer, " that each of the vesicles, of which he 

 had examined a hundred specimens, only contained a single 

 worm (Tcenia hydatigena), the head of which was furnished with 

 tolerably large oscula, and a coronet composed of many hooks. 

 The fluid of the vesicles was clear lymph, and no small corpuscles 

 were swimming about in it." Creplin now thinks that these 

 were Cysticerci. Dr. Weitenkampf, to whom I have applied for 

 further information, sending him some of the vesicles from my 

 patient referred to before, has, I am sorry to say, given me 

 no answer, notwithstanding my repeated request. I cannot, 

 however, help saying here, without circumlocution, that I regard 

 the structures here described as Ecldnococcus altricipariens from 

 the human kidney. 



