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animals infested with Cysiicercns tenuicollis are nothing more nor less 

 than these tuhes, or altered blood-vessels, caused by the growth and 

 wandering of the parasites. 



Curtice takes a somewhat different view — that is, he considers the 

 liver as a place of destruction for the young parasites, rather than a 

 normal place for their development; he also claims that the embryos, 

 which may even travel the entire length of the intestine of the inter- 

 mediate host, traverse the intestine and arrive directly in the position 

 where they complete their larval development w-ithout first passing 

 through the liver. 



After developing into the full-grown bladder worm, the parasites 

 remain unchanged until they are devoured by a dog or wolf, or until, 



Fig. 141. — Cross-section of the liver of a lamb which died nine days after feeding with 

 of the niarginate tapeworm {Tcenia marginata) . (After Curtis.) 



after an undetermined length of time, they become disintegrated and 

 more or less calcified. 



If the hydatid is devoured by a dog or w^olf, either when the latter 

 prey upon the secondary host or when the dog obtains the cyst at a 

 slaughter-house, the bladder portion is destroyed, the scolex alone 

 remaining intact in the digestive fluids. The head holds fast to the 

 intestinal wall with its suckers and hooks ; by strobilation (transverse 

 division) it gives rise to the segments, which as we have already seen, 

 together with the head, go to make up the adult tapeworm. Eepro- 

 ductive organs of both sexes develop in the separate segments, and 

 eggs are produced, within w^hich are developed the six-hooked embryos, 

 the point from w^hich we started. 



DISTOMATOSIS-LIVER FLUKE DISEASE-LIVER ROT. 



In France the name of distomatosis has been given to a disease caused 

 by the presence of distomata in the bile ducts. It is the " liver rot " of 

 England, the Eberfiiule of Germany, and is produced by the growth in 



