ANCYLOSTOMUM. 383 



Hering's ' Report/ 1855, xvii, p. 147, as also Gurlt's f Mag. 

 Supp./ 1855. A worm-cough was observed in the form of a 

 chronic bronchitis, for which Assafoetida, 5J> with 01. Chaberti, 

 *ij — j\y, and mucilage, was prescribed ; a tea-spoonful daily. 

 In some young geese which were dull, and troubled with agi- 

 tation of the head, opening of the beak, and efforts to vomit, with 

 a croaking voice, and froth on the beak, Przibijlko found red 

 coils of worms in the air-passages and their branches. 



b. Ancylostomum. 



Synon. : Anckylostoma (Dubini) ; Ancylosioma (Creplin). 



According to Von Siebold, the description of Diesing, who re- 

 fers to this worm as his Genus LII, is to be altered in the fol- 

 lowing manner, with the aid of Dubini' s description. 



Vermes subcinerei, vivipari, corpus cylindricum ; caput aliquid 

 aitenuatum ; pharynx infundibuliformis, colore subfusco, parietibus 

 <'esistentibus . Os acetabuliforme, subcorneum ; aperlura oris ampla 

 circularis subdorsalis ; denies in fundo oris intra apertura mar- 

 ginem abdominalem 4 uncinaii (os in altitudine infundibuli 4 uncinis 

 intus recurvatis munitum et in fundo cum eminentiis conicis, in 

 tabularum explicatione " pungidi tcgumentay*ii" nominatis, inuncinos 

 versis, utrique generi communibus, Dubini) ; cesophagus carnosus, 

 qui ad clavce instar inter descendendum largitur ; cutis tra7isverse 

 striata, wide 2 eminentice conicce prominent, una alteri opposita, 

 inter sextam anteriorem partem longitudinis vermiculi totalis et 

 inter reliquas posterior es vermiculi partes, quce quinquies sextam 

 longitudinis totalis partem exhibent ; anus lateralis et aliquid ab 

 extremitate caudali remota. Extremitas caudalis maris bursam 

 terminalem integram, subtus ex cisam midtiradiatam ex appendi- 

 culatam ; penem duplicem longissimum exhibens ; femince obtusa, 

 aperturam genitalem retrorsum sitam prcebens. 



This worm, found by Dubini, in Milan, in the year 1838, 

 in the human duodenum and upper part of the jejunum, and 

 subsecpiently also by Pruner, Bilharz, and Griesinger, in the 

 countries watered by the Nile, but which, according to Yon 

 Siebold, has never yet been found in Europe, on this side of the 

 Alps, but may, perhaps, as it appears to me, occur also in 



