OCCUEEENCE IN MAN. 



I left Greenland the excrement had become firmer, but the patient 

 was still very thin, which was contrary to her usual tendency." 



_ Whether the above history describes the symptoms of a helmin- 

 thiasis, or the attendant effects of pregnancy, can, in spite of the 



Tig. 399.— Three 

 joints, seen {A) from 

 dorsal, and {B) from 

 the ventral surface. 

 (X 2.) 



Flo. 398.— Head of the 

 same (A) from the side, {£) 

 from above. ( x 8.) 



Fig. 397. — Bothriocephalus 

 cordatus from man (nat. size). 



antecedents, hardly be determined ; the account serves, however, as 

 documentary evidence of the occurrence of the worm, and is therefore 

 included in the present account. 



At first sight the worni appeared not a little different from the 

 tape-worms of the dog which were sent along with it, though the 

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