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CLINICAL CHRONICLES. 
By A. Liautard. 
It is generally admitted by helminthologists that cattle are 
subject only to two special kinds of tapeworms, the tenia expansa 
and the tenia denticulata. The report which we present to-day, 
from the observation of Mr. Peters, student in the A. V. C., 
seems to show, however, that these animals are not altogether 
free from other forms of these parasites, the examination made 
of those found on t\\Q post mortem examination of the cow which 
was destroyed, as suspected of being affected with tuberculosis, 
showing that the animal had suffered from tenia mediocanellata — 
a tapeworm, which, found commonly in other animals and in 
man is, however, found to infest cattle when in its immature 
form, and giving rise then to that peculiar affection known as 
measles. In these cases the external muscular tissues of the 
shoulder and haunch, and the diaphragm, and, according to Cob- 
bold, the loose cellular and fatty tissues, and even the heart, are 
found filled with the cysticerci. The suggestion made by Dr. 
Birdsall, who kindly examined the specimen of the tapeworms, as 
