WORMS. INTESTINA; 14 - Tasnia. 
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1-i. T^iNLA. Body flat and compofed of 
numerous articulations: head Avith d 
oi-ifices for fiidtion a little below the 
mouth: mouth terminal, continued by a 
fhort tube into 2 ventral canals, and 
generally crowned with a double feries 
of retractile hooks or holders. 
Tape-worm. 
Thefc are deftinei to feed on the juices of various animals, and 
are mollly found in the alimentary canal, ufually at the upper 
pare 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 difeharge their numerous eggs from the apertures on 
the joints. 
A. Found in other parts beftdes the internet, and furnijhed 
with a vefule behind. Hydatids, ' 
a, Infefiing the Mammalia. 
Pifiform, inclofed in a veficlc : broad on the fore-part and 
pointed behind. 
Philof,Franf.4^t «* 475>^*3°S* 
Goeze Eingew. p, 196, 249, tab. 20. B. iz. a,b.- 
Wern.yerm. Inteft. tab. q, fig. 
Found in the liver, placenta, fack containing the dropucal fluid, 
and other morbid tumours of mankind', is foraet'.mcs folitary, 
and fometimes many together in the fame veiicle. 
Solitary, and inclofed in a cartilaginous veficle and 2-taiIcd 
tunic. 
Wern. Verm. Intefi. p. z, tab. 
Inhabits the cellular fubftance of the mufcles of Man: about an 
inch long, half as much broad and one-fourth as thick : is 
very tenacious of life : head furniihed with obtufe hooks. 
A . 
Inhabits the diaphragm of the Ape. 
Size of a nut. Goeze Eingenei. p. 24. 
‘pptffili. Inhabits the liver of the Bat. 
Jiloch, Schr, bcrl, Jiaturft i>p. 334» 
