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CHAPTER IV. 



Beef and Pork Measles contrasted — Essential Marks 



OF THE BOYINE CySTICERCUS CHARACTER AND FUNC- 

 tions of the central sucking organ of the head 

 — English Meat Inspectors unacquainted with the 

 Beef Measle — Measly Beef sold in the Bombay 

 Markets — Extraordinary prevalence of Cysticerci 

 in the Flesh of Cattle in the Punjab — Explanation 

 of this Phenomenon — Its bearing on the Sewage 

 Question — Interesting Statements by Dr. Joseph 

 Fleming — Disgusting Habits of Native Cattle and 

 Swine — A Question of Diagnosis. 



If a strict comparison be instituted between the measles 

 of beef and pork, it will be found that they differ from 

 one another not only in respect of the relative size of 

 their bodies, but also as regards the form and armature 

 of the head. It is particularly noteworthy that these 

 marked divergencies of shape and structure are equally 

 well pronounced in the adult or final stages of develop- 

 ment. It cannot be said, hovever, that a similar degree 

 of distinctiveness holds good in the case of the mutton 

 measle, which, as I shall hereafter show, resembles very 

 closely the cysticercus derived from pork. 



At the risk of anticipating some few facts that I must 

 needs make more clear by-and-by, it is, in the meantime, 



