CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory Eemarks — Parasites of the Ox — The Host — 

 Nature of the So-called Cattle Plague Bodies — "What are 

 Flukes ? — Their Affinity to Planarians — Guests and Fellow- 

 boarders — Entozoa are not the Eesult of Diseased Condi- 

 tions — True and False Parasites — The Common Liver Fluke 

 — The various Hosts it Infests — Production of Eot — 

 Precautions suggested to Yeterinarians and Agriculturists 

 — Flukes prevalent in Foreign Cattle . . . . 



CHAPTER II. 



Prevalence of False Views regarding the " Eot Disease" 

 — The Lancet-shaped Fluke — A Good Type of the Trema- 

 tode Family — Has been known to prove Fatal to the 

 Human Bearer — The Smallest Flukes may produce Disease 

 — Elephants Die from Eot — The Cone-shaped Fluke — 

 Development of the Amphistomes — How Cattle become 

 Infested — Practical Considerations — Undue Neglect of this 

 Study on the part of Yeterinarians — Amphistomes infest 

 Euminants generally 10 



CHAPTER III. 



Tapeworms of Cattle — Cestode Parasites exhibit strange 

 Genetic Phenomena — The Long Tapeworm — Does it incon- 

 venience the Bovine Host? — Proves fatal to Lambs — Treat- 

 ment recommended — The Toothed Tapeworm — Cestode 

 Larvae abound in Cattle — The Beef Measle — Its prevalence 



