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abundant. Dr Bellingham found a trichosome (T. felis cati) in 

 the urinary bladder of the wild cat. This is probably identical 

 with T. plica. A. tolerably common nematode is Dochmius 

 tubaformis, which occurs not only in the cat but also in the 

 leopard, puma, jaguar, ounce, panther, and also in Felis tigrina 

 and F. mellivora. In the last-named and in other Brazilian 

 felines an echinorhynchus (E. campanulatus) was found by 

 Natterer. A strongyle (Sclerostoma dispar) infests the lungs 

 of the puma. A species of spiroptera (S. subcequalis, Molin) 

 infests the oesophagus and stomach of the lion and tiger. Redi 

 also noticed a species of Filaria beneath the skin of the lion. 

 Physaloptera terdentata (Molin) and P. digitata (Schneider) 

 infest the stomach of the puma. I can only allude also to Tania 

 laticollis of the lynx, Pentastoma recurvatum, occupying the 

 frontal sinuses and air-passages of the ounce, and Ligula 

 reptans the subcutaneous tissues of the leopard. Lastly, there 

 is the Olulanus tricuspis of the domestic cat. I have examined 

 the lungs of three cats containing this parasite, which was first 

 described as an entirely new species by Leuckart. The adult 

 worms, only ' in length, occupy the walls of the stomach. 

 Thence they are apt to migrate or stray into the lungs and 

 liver, where they encyst themselves. When myriads of them 

 are thus encysted a kind of nematode tuberculosis is set up. 

 This disease I have elsewhere called olulaniasis. Ordinarily, 

 however, the encysted condition of olulanus is to be found in 

 the muscles of mice, which are thus said to be olulanised. 

 Clearly, as Leuckart's experiments substantially prove, the 

 domestic cat acquires the adult worm by catching and devour- 

 ing olulanised rodents. Every now and then the disorder thus 

 created produces a virulent and fatal feline epizooty. 



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