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standing that it had parted with a drop or two of blood, it soon recovered its legs, 
and ran about the table as vigorously as ever. Moreover, as if this were not 
enough to satisfy me as to its almost instantaneous cure, in a very few minutes 
afterwards it demolished the contents of a saucer partly filled with bread previously 
steeped in milk. An occasional gape was caused by an accumulation of frothy 
mucus within the injured trachea; but this obstruction the bird soon got rid of 
by a few shakes of the head, attended with sneezing. The only subsequent incon- 
venience to the bird arose from emphysematous distension of the cellular tissue of 
the head and neck. This was on two or three occasions relieved by a slight 
puncture of the extremely thin integument, the emphysema ceasing to form after 
the external wound had healed. This chicken was well fed, and rapidly attained 
the size of an ordinary full-grown pullet. I have since caused it to be 
killed; and on dissecting the neck, although there was no scar externally, a 
distinct cicatrix indicates the site of the operation on the trachea—the divided 
cartilaginous rings, six in number, being united only by a thin layer of connective 
tissue. 
EXPLANATION OF WOODCUT. 
Fig. 1. Sclerostoma syngamuws, male and female. Natural Fig. 4. Lower end of the body of the male, showing the 
size. cup-shaped bursa, hard rays, lateral muscles, digestive 
Fig. 2. Upper part of the same, showing more especially tube, and round tail. Magnified 30 diameters. 
the six-lobed circular lip of the female, and the mode of 
union. Enlarged. 
Fig. 3. Lower end of the body of the female, with its Fig. 6. Egg, with contained embryo. Magnified 220 
mucronate caudal appendage. Enlarged. diameters. 
Fig. 5. Mature egg. Magnified 220 diameters, 
“ Reverting now to the worms extracted from the trachea, I observe, in the 
first place, that the females have an average length of &ths of an inch, the males 
searcely exceeding 4th of an inch. In both sexes the bodies are tolerably uniform 
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