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the expiration of three months the calf, which 

 was now a strong animal, was slaughtered in the 

 cause of science and humanity, and when we re- 

 moved the external parts it was found that the 

 muscles, especially the superficial one, were filled 

 with the higher larvae of this parasite. The larva 

 measle or bladder worm is called scientifically 

 Cysticercus hovis', thus we reared in this calf many 

 thousands of these parasites. Supposing we had 

 sent this calf to market, what would have been 

 the result ? Every individual who partook of the 

 veal, and who did not, in cooking, raise the tem- 

 perature to 145°, would, undoubtedly, have been 

 liable to have developed in his interior the adult 

 form of this particular parasite. How do we 

 know that? We have experimental proof in 

 various ways. A gentleman in India has lately 

 had the courage to induce a Mahommedan boy to 

 swallow some under-done meat of this description 

 purposely, and the result was that the boy had the 

 privilege of playing host to as many tapeworms 

 as he had swallowed examples of this little C?/sti' 

 cereus. Dr. Joseph Fleming brought over from 

 India the largest specimen ever seen, which was 

 taken from meat served out to our troops as 

 rations. What happens when the measles are 

 swallowed is this, the bladder-like part is imme- 

 diately digested. These latter pass down from 

 the stomach into the alimentary canal, a process 

 of budding commences, and in three months the 

 worm is fully developed. Such astonishing phe- 

 nomena as these are not the result of disease or 

 accident ; they constitute together the life cycle 



