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rations, and in no single instance did I find such cysts. These 

 cattle were healthy. 



' f In a case that died, and in which cysts existed, I could 

 discover nothing abnormal in or under the tongue. 



" If such ' cysts ' exist, or if such enlargements of the sub- 

 lingual glands are found, I argue that they are not a diagnostic 

 sign of what is termed ' cyst infection/ or more correctly ' Cys- 

 ticercus bovis,' for in the recent outbreak of cattle disease in 

 England, one most prominent symptom of that disease was a 

 bunch of grape-like swelling under the tongue, which in advanced 

 cases suppurated, and to a casual observer would have been 

 called cysts or ' bags of matter/ 



" If such swellings are found in a bullock that is sick, it is 

 merely symptomatic of an inflamed condition of the whole 

 mucous surface of the intestinal canal, and not of any localised 

 disease, such as Cysticercus, the above-mentioned swellings 

 being merely inflamed sublingual glands. 



tf In the pig the diagnostic sign of swellings of the glands or 

 ' cyst ' under the tongue is not found in ' Cysticercus,' and the 

 disease called ' measles ' is not ' Cysticercus/ but a mere super- 

 ficial inflammation of the skin and a symptom of fever. ' Cys- 

 ticercus cellulosus/ as its name shows, infects the cellular 

 tissue only of the pig, and cannot be discovered in life by any 

 abnormal condition of skin. 



" In ' measles ' these swellings are found, because intestinal 

 mucous membrane sympathises with eruption on the skin and 

 are then merely inflamed glands, not cysts. " 



Dr Neill concludes his report by remarking that the larvas of 

 the beef tapeworm can " only arrive at maturity in the mucous 

 membrane of horned cattle/' and not in the cellular tissue. 

 This is an error on Dr NeilFs part ; but in adducing these 

 instructive extracts from the Government Reports my chief 

 object has been to show the prevalence of Cysticercus in the 

 North- West Provinces of the Indian Peninsula. I may say 

 that a large proportion of my tapeworm-infected patients have 

 been officers from the Punjab, and one of these victims told me 

 that when he superintended the serving out of rations to the 

 troops, " he (and those who acted with him) sent the meat away 

 to be burnt, even when they only detected a single cyst in any 

 given carcase." It is needless to remark that such a waste of 

 valuable food is altogether reprehensible. 



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