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29th of June. It presented nearly the same symptoms as th e 
former. For the last few days of its existence the right fore- 
leg was always bent, and in walking it could not support it- 
self upon its hoofs. In removing the brain from the cranium, 
a Ceenurus of the size of a small nut fell upon the dissecting 
table. Two other Cenuri, of the same size, were found in 
the right hemisphere, one above, the other behind; and in 
separating the hemispheres of the cerebellum, I found two’ 
others touching the quadrigeminal tubercles. The left lobe 
of the cerebellum also contained one. Hight were found in 
all. These Ccenuri were nearly all of the same size, except 
two or three, which were scarcely larger than a cherry-stone. 
Through the walls of the larger ones the naked eye could dis- 
tinguish some little whitish flakes, the indications ofso many 
heads (scolices). The smaller ones had no appearance of 
heads, nor of the place where they were to rise. The Cenuri 
were enclosed in a membrane of recent formation, produced 
by the inflammation of the neighboring surfaces.” 
Similar experiments, with the same results, were tried by 
Eschricht at Copenhagen, and Leuckart at Giessen, to whom 
tape-worms from the same dog were sent. Three sheep were 
fed by Dr. Eschricht. Of these one was not affected, but the 
other two became ill on the 15th and 16th days and died four 
days afterward with the symptoms already described, and in 
their brains the samekind of young Cenuri were-found. 
In these experimental cases, where large numbers of eggs 
are given, the symptoms come on violently and death takes 
place at an early stage in the development of the worms, but 
under ordinary circumstances only a few eggs are swallowed 
and then the sheep may live long enough to allow the cysts to 
become much larger, with more numerous heads. The num- 
ber of the heads is often 300 or more on alarge cyst, and each 
head is capable of forming a complete tape-worm, with many 
joints. Allowing 500 sexual joints to each tape-worm, and 
each joint to contain 5000 eggs, there might result, as the pro- 
geny of one egg in a single generation, 150,000 joints, con- 
taining 750,000,000 eggs ! 
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