WORMS. INTESTIXA. G. Tienia. H7 



cious of life abovit an inch long, half as broad, and a fourth thick : 

 head furnished with obtuse hooks. 



B. Mouth arm-ed : boiJijtk.it/ioutthe terminal vesicle. 



19. T. Solium. Articulations long 1 and narrower, wiih 

 marginal mouths, one on each joint and generally 

 alternate : ovaries arborescent. 



Linn. Trans. 2. t. sij./. 18. Mem Land. Mtd. See. v. t. 4. 



In the intestines of mankind, folitary or in considerable numbers. 

 body from 3 to 50 or 60 feet long, consisting of a number of distinct 

 joints appearing as if sheathed in one another, each joint with a 

 lateral marginal pore by which it attaches itself to the intestines : 

 hr-ad with a terminal month surrounded with a rows of radiate 

 hooks or holders, and a little beneath on the flattened fur face ? tubcr- 

 clcd orifices, or suckes each .side : tail ending in a feiuicirculur 

 joint without aperture. 



20. '\\vulgmis. Articulations short and broader, with a 

 mouth in the centre of each: ovaric* stellate round 



(he mouth. 

 US-em. Land. MeJ- Sec. v. tab. 5. Nat Miff f I. 7. t. 24 1 . 



In the human intestines. Body from i to 5 yards lon^, often found 

 3 or 4 together, broader in the middle and tapering to both ends : 

 joints much shorter and broader than the last, finely striate longitu- 

 dinally and wrinkled tranf\ erfcly at the sides : head narrower and 

 fmaller than the last : /a/Vending in a rounded joint : ovaiiej stel- 

 late or coral-like, placed round the mouths of the joints. 



21. T. catenifvnuis. Articulations oblong-elliptic, with 



single marginal mouths. 



i. canina. Radii of the head not reaching to the margin. 

 In the intestines of the Dog. Linn. Trans, z. t. 25. f. g. 

 2. Felis. In the Cat. Linn. Trans. 2. t. 25. /. 1 1. 



RefemblesT. Solium, but the joints are of a more elliptic form, 

 and the mouths mostly opposite. 



22. T. cerebrals. Minute, numerous, aggregate, united 

 by their base to a large common vesicle distributed 

 about the surface. 



Batch. Bandw.p. 84. /. 34 36. Goeze Eingew. t. 20. a.f. 15. 



In the brain, or fpinal marrow immediately beneath the brain of 

 sheep, occasioning the difeafe known by the name of the Durtt or 

 Rickets. Body not larger than a grain of fand, attached by 2 liga- 

 ments, armed on the head with 32-36 hooks by which they affix 

 themselves to the brain or its coats. 



C. Mouth unarmed '. 



23. T. lota. White, with very short and broad joints 

 knotty in the middle, with a single central inouth in 



" each. 



In the human intestines. Linn. Trans. 2. t. 25. f. 1214. 



Body i8--i2O feet long, more opake thicker and broader than. T. 

 vulgaris : joints often half an inch broad, and not more than a line 

 and a half long, very finely stirate tranfverfely : oyaw^difpofed in 

 in a rofo-like form. 



24. T. ovina. Articulations very short and narrow, roun- 

 ded at the ends: lateral vessels pellucid, distinct, 

 with double marginal opposite mouths. 



2. In the intestines of the Ox. Linri. Trans. 2. t. 25. /. 15, 16. 



Body very long , capillary on the fore-part: mou th* one on each 

 edge of each joint : ovariu radiate, and running tranfverfely over 

 each joint. 



