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toms, or there may be simple imbecility. In a fonrth set, mental 

 disturbance may occur without tlie epilepsy ; whilst in another 

 group of cases there is ordinarily neither epilepsy nor mental per- 

 turbation, but in these, however, cerebral symptoms of irritation 

 or torpor ultimately supervene shortly before death. When Grie- 

 singer adds, moreover, that " the epilepsy from Cysticercus is in all 

 respects like cerebral epilepsy, and the psychical disturbances in 

 general have nothing characteristic about them," he seems almost 

 to make the admission that the diagnosis of Cysticercus in the 

 human brain is next to impossible. Even if our suspicions were 

 aroused as to the presence of tapeworm larvae in the brain, it would, 

 of course, be utterly impossible to say whether the larvae in ques- 



FiG. 48. — Head of Cysticercus cellulosce from the human brain (X 50 diam.). Mr. Hulke's case.- 



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tion were referable to Cysticercus cellulosce, or whether they were the 

 ordinary hydatid-acephalocysts of Tcenia ecliinococcus. Moreover, 

 in the cases on record, where the larvas have been removed post- 

 mortem, we have not always been satisfactorily informed as to their 

 true character. In addition, also, to the above-mentioned symp- 

 toms, Griesinger and others have noted that in some cases the 

 phenomena were not unfrequently attended with peculiar symp- 

 toms, " such as squinting, alteration in the pupils, avoidance of 

 light, headache, coma, anomalous sensations in the limbs," etc. 



Cysticerci may develop themselves in almost any situation 

 in the human body, but they occur most frequently in the subcuta- 



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