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Professor Leuckart states that Eichler found a eoenurus 

 " of the size of a goose's egg in the subcutaneous cellular 

 tissue of a sheep/' and, according to Nuuian, Engel- 

 meyer, V.S. at Burgau, found one in the liver of a cat. 

 As will further appear in the sequel, these facts are 

 too important to be passed over; and their significance 

 in relation to the strictly hygienic aspect of " gid para- 

 sitism" can only be thoroughly appreciated when we 

 shall have discussed the developmental history of the cor- 

 responding tapeworm which lives in the intestines of 

 the dog (Taenia eoenurus). 



In regard to treatment, it is satisfactory to know that 

 Parkinson's brutal method of cutting off the ears of 

 affected sheep close to their sockets, and the scarcely 

 less barbarous mode of puncturing through the nostrils, 

 as advocated by the Ettrick Shepherd, are plans which 

 seldom find favour nowadays ; and when we consider the 

 terrible injuries inflicted by James Hogg's method of 

 operating, one need not be surprised at his admission that 

 some of the animals thus operated on do " die in the 

 greatest agonies, and groan piteously." The direct mode 

 of puncturing commonly pursued by veterinarians is so 

 simple, so well known, and so fairly successful on the 

 whole, that it is quite needless to enlarge further upon 

 its merits, whether the awl, the trephine, or any other 

 instrument happen to be employed ; but I may conclude 

 by remarking that, similar principles of treatment are 

 equally effectual in the case of those many-headed hyda- 

 tids which occupy the soft parts of animals. Thus, as 

 Mr. Rose somewhat humourously observes, "when the 

 warrener meets with a rabbit thus affected, he punctures 

 the tumour, squeezes out the fluid, and sends the animal 

 to market with its brethren." For the comfort of con- 



