CESTODA 103 



References to this and other specimens in the Hunterian 

 Collection will be found below (see Pittard). In regard to 

 Weinland's conjectural Toenia acanthotrias , based on the 

 circumstance of his having found a Cysticercus that presented 

 three rows of hooks on its rostellum, I need only say that if 

 such a Tfsnia were found it would only turn out to be a 

 malformed T. solium. The specimens, however, are none the 

 less interesting. Very remarkable and altogether exceptional 

 characters are presented by the strobile of the cestode described 

 by Mr Cullingworth, of Manchester, and of which I possess 

 specimens. Here, apparently, at least two tapeworms are joined 

 together throughout the entire chain of proglottides without 

 intermission. The three margins of each compound segment 

 project at equi-distant angles. Could we have secured the head 

 we should certainly have found six or eight suckers present, 

 since the finest neck-segments showed that the malformation 

 pervaded the entire colony of zooids, sexually mature and 

 otherwise. Mr Cullingworth's specimen is so remarkable that 

 I subscribe full particulars of the case in his own words. He 

 says : " A respectable married woman, named Ann H , forty 

 years of age, residing in Salford, brought to my out-patient 

 room at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, on September 3rd, 

 1873, a few segments of tapeworm as a sample of what she had 

 been passing per anum for about two years. Although never 

 in the habit of taking meat absolutely raw, she told me, on 

 inquiry, that she was particularly fond of tasting it when only 

 partially cooked. The segments were unlike anything I had 

 seen before, and I took them home for examination, ordering the 

 patient meanwhile a draught containing a drachm of the oil of 

 male fern, and giving her strict injunctions to bring to me every 

 fragment that passed away as a result. 



" On September 17th she brought me portions of a tapeworm 

 corresponding throughout to the segments I had already seen, 

 and measuring altogether nine feet in length. Unfortunately, 

 the head was not to be found. Along the middle line of every 

 segment in the body a crest or ridge runs longitudinally, and in 

 the centre of the margin of this crest the genital pore is situ- 

 ated. [In 304 segments examined, only four had the genital 

 opening placed laterally. One segment had two openings, 

 viz. one at the lateral margin and the other in the crest.] 

 Underneath the segment there is a longitudinal groove, and 

 the lateral portions are folded together by the apposition of their 



