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WORMS. INTESTINA, 3. Filaria. 





*Hominis, Body above (lightly crenate, beneath fmooth ; and very 



finely ftriate on the fore-part. 

 Trichuris vulgaris. Mem. Loud. Med. Soc. v./, 252, tab. 3, 

 Roeder de Morb. MucoJ. ed. Wrijb.p.62, tab, 3,7%. 4. 

 Wern. Verm, intetl, p, 84 — 86, tab. 6; Jig, I 38-— 143. 

 Blocb Eingew. 32, Jig,J—9' 

 Goeze EifigevJ. p. 113, tab. 6, Jig, I --5. 

 Inhabits the inteftines of fickly children, generally the ccecum, 



and in confiderable numbers : about 2 inches long, and in 



colour refembles Afcarides, 

 lleaa obtufe and furnifhed with a very (lender probofcis, which 



it can ejeft or retract: at pleafure : tailor thinner part twice as 



long as the thicker end, $nd terminating in a fine hair-like 



point, 



*Equu Inhabits the inteftines of the Horfe. 



Goeze Etnge<w. p. 118, tab. 6, Jig, 8. 

 Body about 2 inches and a half long? 



Apt. Head furnifhed with crenate fcales each fide. 



Goeze Efigenv^ p. 1 22 , tab, 6 ,Jg. 6, 7. 

 In the inteftines of the Boar : (ize of T. Hominis 



%[ ur i tt Head furnifhed with 3 veficles, 



Goeze Einge<w. p. \ 19, tab, 7, A. Jig. 1—5. 



Found in the inteftines of the Mouje, between the duodenum 



and rectum. 

 Body befet with white veficles on the thinner part. 



Vulpis. Head a little pointed and refembling that of a ferpent : neck 

 tranfverfely ftriate and furnifhed with veficies. 

 Frcehcb NaturJ. 24,/, 142, tab. ^,Jg* 25 — 29, 

 Inhabits the coecum of the Fox, 



Lacerta:. Head fcaly each fide: tajl hooked. 



Goeze Eingeyv, p. 123, tab. 7, A. fig. 6, 7. 

 Pall, no<v, comm, Peirop. 19, tab, 10, fig 6. 

 Found in the inteftines or the Lacerta apus. 



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FILARIA. Body round, filiform, equal 

 and quite fmooth : mouth dilated; with a 

 roundifh concave lip. 



A. Infefiing the Mammalia, 



MedinenJh, Body entirely pale yellowidi. 



Gordius Medineufis, Sy/?,Nat,xi\. 2. p* 1075, n, 3, 



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