48 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



an enormous and nodulated cys- 

 tic tumor of one of the' ovaries, 

 showing precisely the same condi- 

 tions, but the case undoubtedly 

 was one of cystoma or cystic de- 

 generation of the ovarian follicles ; 

 it weighed thirty pounds, the lady 

 living yet, in good health. It is 

 quite well known that in these 



cent, of the cattle carry the echi- 

 nocoeeus, and that in some other 

 countries, Iceland for instance, 

 according to Kuchenmeister, the 

 eehinococcus disease is so wide- 

 spread among man that the native 

 physicians there in 1872 reported 

 one-eighth of all the diseases oc- 

 curring there as having been 



A Single Ecchinococc^s with Hooklets in Center of Upper Body. 

 (Very highly magnified 



slow-growing cystomas, as well as 

 in other more rapid-growing neo- 

 plasms, strangulation and degen- 

 eration of the tumor substance 

 with formation of pus cavities oc- 

 cur, even in small sized neoplasms. 

 In order to consider the pre- 

 valence and etiology of the eehino- 

 coccus disease, history shows that 

 in India, where dogs are said to 

 be very numerous, seventy per 



caused by the eehinococcus para- 

 site. 



The propagation of the disease 

 is thus described in Niemeyer's 

 Pathology, in connection there- 

 with : ' ' Animals infested with the 

 taenia eehinococcus at times eva- 

 cuate joints, the eggs or embryos 

 contained therein, by some means 

 get into the drinking water or 

 come in contact with articles of 



