210 PARASITOLOGY. 
Description—The adult is elongated, tapering at 
both ends; it measures two to three millimeters in 
length and eighty to two hundred microns wide; it 
presents a granular appearance, due to spores, and is 
surrounded by a limiting membrane. 
Animals Infested—The ox, pig, sheep and horse. 
Parts Infested —Muscle structures. 
Conditions Produced—The sarcocyst is located 
under the sarcolemma, lying longitudinally of the 
muscle fibre. Pigs whose muscle structures become 
badly infested are noted to show symptoms of weak- 
ness, partial paralysis, loss of appetite, unthrifty 
appearance. In a cow which was badly infested 
there was noted restlessness; constant getting up 
and down; she presented an unthrifty appearance; 
skin dry and rough; severe diarrhoea; the fecal 
discharge had a putrid odor; temperature 105.5‘ 
Fahrenheit; pulse 108, soft and compressible; respi- 
ration shallow and hurried. She gradually grew 
weaker and died. Only the liver and heart were 
saved and studied by aid of the microscope; in these 
myriads of sarcocysts were found, as illustrated by 
Figs. 75 and 76, 
BALBIANIA GIGANTEA (Balbiana). 
Distribution—Found in Europe. As yet there is 
no record of their being found in the United States. 
Description —This sarcospore appears as a whitish 
spot and varies in size from a rye grain to a hazel nut 
It has a thin outer membrane; the interior is filled 
with cells. In the larger bodies there is located a 
capsule the size of a pin-head, which contains cres- 
cent-shaped non-nucleated bodies. 
