148 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



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Echirwcoccus (E. Eominis, E. Veterimrum), in the most 

 varied internal organs of men and animals. As tlie cystic 

 form of this parasite has the power of increasing its num- 

 bers almost indefinitely, and growing into enormous mul- 

 tilocular cysts, it becomes extremely injurious and even 

 deadly to its brute, and, above aU, to its human victims, 

 One-sixth of the human mortality in Iceland has been at- 

 tributed to this parasite, and a fatal case in a child has re- 

 cently come under my notice in Tompkins Co., N. Y. Many 

 of the cysts of water found in the hver and other internal 

 organs of the domestic animals are specimens of echmo- 

 coccus, and that they are not more frequently fatal may be 

 attributed largely to the shortness of the hves of animals 

 raised for slaughter. They may inhabit almost any organ 

 (Uver, lungs, spleen, abdominal walls, kidneys, brain, eye, 

 etc.,) and the symptoms will vary accordingly. 



Treatment. Spontaneous recovery may take place from 

 death or rupture of the sac. Otherwise the true nature 

 of these fluctaating tumors can rarely be recognized, but 

 if they should, they may be punctured with a very fine 

 needle-shaped nozzle, the hquid evacuated with a syringe, 

 and compound tincture of iodine injected into the sac. 



Prevention. Destroy aU superfluous dogs. Keep others 

 from slaughter-houses and deny raw flesh and especially 

 offal. Examine frequently and if segments of tape-worm 

 are passed, clear them away with vermifuges (see gid). 

 Burn the dung of aU dogs suffering from tape-worms, the 

 contents of evacuated hydatids and all offal containing 

 cysts. 



MEASLES IN SWINE. 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 4 — Head of Tfenia Solium, magnified. Cobbold. 



The bladder-worm of pork, (Oysticercm Cdhihsa, Fig 



