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museum likewise contains an old preparation of hydatids of the 

 tibia, but its history has been lost. There are also two brain 

 cases, besides upwards of a score of more or less characteristic 

 and instructive cases of hydatids affecting the liver. 



Scattered amongst the museums connected with the larger 

 provincial schools and recognised hospitals there must be a 

 great many valuable preparations of hydatid disease ; at all 

 events, I judge so from the inspection I have incidentally made 

 of a few of the collections. 



Of eleven preparations of human hydatids which I observed 

 in the Cambridge Anatomical Museum, apparently representing 

 the same number of cases, seven were connected with the 

 liver and one with the lungs. Those hydatids displayed in the 

 " special series " of entozoa were of uncertain seat. From the 

 recently published and valuable ' Notes ' by Dr Bradbury, I 

 have no doubt that considerable additions have been made to 

 the Cambridge Collection since my last visit. 



The museum at Oxford contains some choice specimens of 

 hydatids, but I have only personally inspected a few of them. 

 In the absence of original notes, however, I am indebted to 

 the kindness of Mr W. Hatchett Jackson for supplying me with 

 several interesting particulars. The anatomical department of 

 the Oxford Collection shows from one particular case two 

 hydatids that were found " under the dura mater." In the 

 pathological department we find one hydatid from the liver of 

 a male subject, and also a preparation showing a number of 

 small hydatids that were " coughed up from the lungs of a 

 female." There are also in this department (Dr. Acland's) 

 two examples of hydatids from the diaphragm, apparently 

 belonging to two separate cases. One is described as a large 

 " hydatid in the diaphragm covered by the pleura," whilst the 

 other is spoken of as " springing from the diaphragm and 

 projecting into the sac of the pericardium/' There is likewise 

 a preparation showing a number of small specimens of hydatids 

 that were passed per anum by a female. It is conjectured 

 that they came from the liver. 



The small pathological museum attached to the Brighton and 

 Sussex Hospital is particularly rich in hydatids. Amongst 

 others, it contains preparations illustrative of the remarkable 

 case of hydatids in the region of the prostate, communicated 

 by Mr Lowdell, in the ' Lancet/ in 1846. 



The comparatively large museum adjoining the Norfolk and 



