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Leuckart has also personally informed me that he has, in 

 conjunction with Professor Mosler, repeated this kind of ex- 

 periment with precisely similar results, and since our interview 

 I find he has placed the particulars of the experiment on record 

 in the appendix to the third part of the fi^t volume of his 

 invaluable treatise.* In this third case a 'flealthy calf, three 

 months old, was fed first with one hundred proglottides, and 



Pjq.. 5] . Section of the heart of a calf which died from acute cestode tuberculoeis, produced by 



the administration of proglottides of Tcenia meMocanellaia. (Natural size.)— Mosler. 



three days afterwards with fifty more. At the eighth and eleventh 

 days respectively, subsequent to the worm-feeding, several morbid 

 symptoms made their appearance. " The animal lost appetite, be- 



* " Die menscliliclieii Parasiten," Erst. Bd. s. 747-— This experiment has since been 

 more fully detailed by Mosler himself, in his brochure, entitled " Helminthologische 

 Studien und Beobachtungen." Berlin, 1864. 



