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a state of coma. It died on the evening of the day on which 

 it showed these symptoms. On examination the brain, and 

 more especially its envelopes, were found greatly congested. 

 In the superficial part of the two hemispheres of the cerebrum 

 were found twenty-three cysticerci, each about the size of a 

 pea ; they were enveloped in a thin white kyst of connective 

 tissue, around which the proper texture of the brain appeared 

 redder than usual, and a little softened. Nothing abnormal 

 was observed in t^ie other organs." * 



• Fleming's " Veterinary Sanitary Science," vol. ii. pp. 525, 52 



