78 ENTOZOA FOUND IN MAN, 



The appetite is often increased, and sometimes 

 insatiable ; at other times it is almost altogether 

 wanting, or is subject to alternations of increase and 

 of diminution. 



There frequently exist, also, in persons who are 

 affected with taenia, a feehng of general tenderness, 

 lassitude, cramps, and pains in the extremities, which 

 are often so severe as to prevent the patients from 

 following their usual avocations. 



The wasting is observable amongst persons who 

 have suffered from taenia for a long period ; tumidity 

 and distension of the abdomen sometimes accompany 

 this symptom. 



The majority of these symptoms do not, for a 

 time, usually cause any serious alteration in the 

 health of the patients, but this is not the case with 

 certain convulsive complications which are occasion- 

 ally produced by taenia. These complications consist 

 of more or less frequent attacks of convulsions, 

 which present the characteristics of chorea, of epi- 

 lepsy, or of hysteria. 



Other sympathetic phenomena are sometimes 

 seen amongst persons who are naturally nervous, or 

 have become so in consequence of the illness caused 

 by the taenia. These phenomena are very diversified 

 in their nature, and depend upon the derangement of 

 some sense or function. The most frequent are 

 periodical rigors, muscular twitchings, obstinate 

 cough, perversions of the sense of hearing, sight, or 

 smell, hypercesthesia or anaesthesia of various parts 

 of the body. 



Amongst the symptoms which have been men- 

 tioned, there is none which is decisively indicative of 



