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cases, incurable, and such diseased sheep are too often sent 
to the market. Fortunately, man cannot be infected with 
this parasite. 
When one of these tumors is removed with care, it will be 
found to consist of a thin, white, translucent cyst or sac, 
roundish, oval, or irregular in shape. On one side may be 
Figure 64. 
seen clusters of little white spots (Figure 62). If the spots 
be examined with a lens, each one will be found to consist of 
the minute head and neck of a young tape-worm, projecting 
from the surface, and provided with four suckers and a circle of 
Figure 65. 
hooks, as usual in young tape-worms in this stage of their 
erowth (Figure 63). Or else the heads will be found to be 
withdrawn into the sac, each in its own capsule, and then 
the spots are made by small depressions or pits, with a slit- 
like opening at the bottom. If the interior of the sac-mem- 
brane be examined with a microscope, each pit will be found 
Figure 63.—Portion of the outer membrane, with the heads of Conurus. En- 
larged four diameters. From Davaine. 
Figure 64.—Inner surface of the membrane of the cyst, with inverted heads, 
magnified. Hearth and Home, after Thudichum. 
Figure 65.—Brain of sheep in which the young embryos of Ciwnurus have ex- 
cavated galleries. Davaine, after Van Benedeu. 
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