WORMS, INTESTINA; 14: T*nia. 39 



14. TAENIA. Body flat and compofed of 

 numerous articulations : head with 4 

 orifices for fu&ion a little below the 

 mouth: mouth terminal, continued bv a 

 ihort tube into 2 ventral canals, and 

 generaEy crowned with a double feries 

 of retractile hooks or holders. 



Tape-worm. 



Thefe are deftined to feed on the juices of various animals, and 

 are moitly found in the alimentary canal, ufually at the upper 

 part of it. They are fometimes found in great numbers, and 

 occafion very diftreffing ailments. They have the power of 

 reproducing parts which have been broken off, and are there* 

 fore removed with confiderable difficulty. They are ovipa- 

 rous, and difcharge their numerous eggs from the apertures on 

 the joints. 



A. Found in other parts befides the inteftines, and furnijhed 

 with a veficle behind* Hydatids. 



a, Infejling the Mammalia, 



•Vijceralis Pifiform, iHclofed in a veficle : broad on the fore-part an4 

 pointed behind. 

 Thilof. Trau/, 43, n. 475, /. 305. 

 Goeze Eingenv. p. 196, 249, tab, 20. B, fg. 12. a,b.- 

 Wern. t'erm. Intefi. p,6S, tab. 9, fig. 29 — 33, 

 Found in the liver, placenta, fack containing the dropfical fluid, 

 and other morbid tumours of mankind: is fometimes folitary, 

 and fometimes many together in the fame veficle, 



*Celluhf* Solitary, and inclofed in a cartilaginous veficle and 2-tailed 

 tunic. 

 Wern.Verm.Intefi. p. 2, tab, I, fg. 1 — 8. 



Inhabits the cellular fubftance of the mufcles of Man: about aa 

 inch long, half as much broad and one-fourth as thick; h 

 very tenacious of life : head furnifhed with obtufe hooks. 



Simla? Inhabits the diaphragm of the Ape. 

 Size of a nut. Goeze Eingeiu. p, 24. 



Vefpertili- Inhabits the liver of the Bat, 

 onis Bkeh t Scbr, bzrl. Naturf i 9 f. 334. 



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