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On the mesentery, throughout, were a number of cysticerci 

 scattered, but none of them being in clusters. 



Perhaps the most remarkable condition was that found in the 

 pelvic cavity and along the course of the uterus and fallopian 

 tubes, in the folds of the broad ligaments and the ovaries them- 

 selves. These show particularly well in the photograph. 



The fascia covering the dorso-lumbar region presented great 

 numbers of these cysticerci of different sizes. In the left psoas 

 muscles were 4 to 5 small cysticerci, three of them without caudal 

 vesicle, and scolex of a cheesy consistency. The vesicle having 

 burst and been absorbed, causing degeneration of the remaining 

 parts, I tried to ascertain if the head, with its booklets and 

 suckers, was still intact ; but pressure between the glass destroyed 

 it, and found booklets scattered. The ovaries were about theii 

 normal size, but the shape was somewhat altered, firm to the 

 feeling and having the appearance of a tubercular mass. The 

 right and left ovaries were practically identical in size, shape, 

 and consistency. Something like 20 to 25 could be counted on 

 the surface, all of them small; some not much larger than the 

 head of a pin, existing as shiny white spots. On making an 

 incision through the ovary, the following condition was noted: 

 that the medullary portion of the ovary was wholly free from 

 cysticerci, while in the cortical portion the cysticerci were very 

 numerous, those nearer the surface of the organ being larger. 



Notwithstanding the close proximity of the cysts in this organ, 

 each cysticercus was separate and distinct from its neighbor. 

 The hydatids along the course of the fallopian tubes were es- 

 pecially numerous and large, existing as a continuous chain, with 

 a group of large ones attached to the folds of the broad ligament 

 between the ovary and fallopian tubes, which cover the par- 

 ovarium, and extending from the ligament by a slender neck. I 

 was under the impression at first, on finding the cysts in the 

 ovary, that they were of a different species of embryo than those 

 found elsewhere ; but a careful microscopical examination, made 

 immediately after the photographs were taken, showed them to 

 be the same as the others: Cysticercus tcnnicolUs, the progenitor 

 of the Taenia marginata. 



The Autopsy of the Second Mule Deer. — The cysticerci were 

 found in greater numbers, of larger size and more widely dis- 

 tributed, hardly any organ being free of them. I found them on 

 lungs, costal pleura, diaphragm, liver, mesentery, peritoneum, 

 and serous covering of intestines. Upon the gastro-colic omentum 

 I counted over 50 cysts. 



