DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 



Its 



sf.eep, oce tape-woiTn, one fluke, and seven round worms; 

 the pig, one thorn-headed worm and five round worms; the 

 dog, thirteen tape-worms, one fluke, and five round worms; the 

 cat, five tape-worms, three flukes, and three round worms ; the 

 rabbu, one tape-worm and three round worms ; the goose and 

 duck, nine tape-worms, seven flukes, one thorn-headed worm, 

 and seven round worms; the chicken, four tape-worms, two 

 flukes, and seven round worms ; and the turkey and pigeon, at 

 least two round worms each. Of these eighty-eight worms o. 

 the digestive organs it is useless to attempt any description in a 

 work of the present limits, so that our attention must be mainly 

 confined to their symptoms and treatment. For further infor- 

 mation the reader is referred to the author's larger work or to 

 those of Leuckhart, Diesing, Dujardin, Baillet, Cobbold, and 

 other helmiuthologists, 



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Fig. 24.— Sclerostomum Equlnun.\ Fig. 23.— Oxyuris Curvula. 



Mature and young forms, nat, size. i. Female ; 2. Male, nat. size. 



The transformations of tape-worms have been already referred 

 to under parasites, and these of flukes under diseases of t)u 

 liver. The thorn-headed wo, ws lay their eggs within the body 

 of their host, and these bein,, passed with the dung are swa\- 



