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with two drachms of kamala, which she stated had 

 expelled the rest of the worm. Unfortunately, I 

 was deprived of the opportunity of searching for 

 the head, but the final portion removed and re- 

 tained for my examination measured upwards of 

 five feet. This specimen of Tania solium therefore 

 measured fully twenty-four feet in length, and it 

 displayed a great number of malformed joints, not 

 only of the kind already described, but also of the 

 type more commonly seen in specimens of the beef- 

 tapeworm. 



These cestode abnormalities exhibit every con- 

 ceivable variation of character, but as I said before, 

 I have no time to dwell upon them. I will only, 

 therefore, further mention that by far the most re- 

 markable form of tapeworm proglottid which I 

 have ever seen is one preserved in the Royal College 

 of Surgeons' Museum. It is a Hunterian specimen, 

 marked No. 120 in the revised Catalogue of the 

 Entozoological Series. This strange segment displays 

 no less than twenty-two separate sexual orifices ; or, 

 in other words, we have, as it were, twenty-two 

 segments rolled into one. 



