THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LIII. 
No. 630. 
JUNE, 1880. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 306. 
Communications and Cases. 
PARASITIC DISEASE IN BATRACHIA AND 
SALMONIDiE. 
By T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of 
Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College. 
In the pages of the Midland Naturalist I have recently 
recorded a curious example of Parasitism in the Toad, show¬ 
ing the destructive effects of dipterous larvae; and in The 
Field I have likewise had an opportunity of recording an 
instance ofcestode tuberculosis in a trout, to which, as will be 
seen below, I have attached a special name. After the 
recent discussions that have appeared in the Times and in 
the Lancet respecting Trichinosis and Fluke disease, I think 
it high time that a better nomenclature for parasitic dis¬ 
orders should be introduced. At present I do not propose 
to enter fully into this question, but, as bearing upon the 
general question of epizooty affecting all classes of animals, 
I think it desirable to give increased publicity to the follow¬ 
ing remarkable facts. : 
Just forty years ago I remember, as a lad, to have been 
painfully struck with the distress of a toad, as shown by its 
outstretched fore limbs firmly planted in the soil, and by an 
otherwise peculiar attitude. The victim was in a plantation 
of my father’s Rectory grounds, Wortham, Suffolk. Noticing 
the constant outward and inward movement of several para- 
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