SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
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GY8TICERCU8 CELLULOSE IN A TAMIL. 
By Albert J. Chalmers, M.D., F.R.C.S., 
Registrar of the Ceylon Medical College, 
YSTICERCUS CELLULOSE has not, as far as I know, 
been recorded in a human being in Ceylon, and therefore 
these few notes may be of interest. 
A Tamil woman, aged forty years, died with obscure symptoms 
in the General Hospital, Colombo. On making the post-mortem 
a few well-developed Cysticerci were found lying in the inter¬ 
muscular septa of the pectoralis major muscle on both sides of 
the body. On examining the brain a considerable number of 
Cysticerci were found in the gray matter of the cortex, in the 
choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles, in the third ventricle, 
in the brachium conjunctivum, and in the pons. 
Many other muscles and all the other organs, except the eye, 
were examined, but no more cysts were found. 
No adult tapeworms were found in the intestines, which were 
inflamed and ulcerated. 
Remarks . 
The two common bladder worms which are found in men are 
Cysticercus cellulosse and the Echinococcus. The latter is not 
indigenous to Ceylon, and the only case I am acquainted with 
was a Boer prisoner of war, who suffered from hydatids, and was 
treated at Diyatalawa Camp by Dr. Garvin, Senior Surgeon to the 
General Hospital, Colombo. 
The tapeworms at present known to affect man in Ceylon are 
Tcenia solium and Taenia saginata . 
The Cysticercus cellulosce is very common in Europe ; in fact 
it was said to be found as commonly as in 2 per cent, of all 
post-mortems in certain parts of Germany (Virchow). Its most 
common site is in the brain, and after that in the muscles. 
The most common place in the brain for it to be found is in 
the membranes and cortex, and after these in the corpora 
striata and optic thalamus, the fourth ventricle, and lastly in 
the choroid plexus. 
It is not common in the cerebellum, and the brachium conjunc¬ 
tivum or superior cerebellar peduncle is not mentioned, nor is 
the pons. Of the muscles, the pectoralis major is most common. 
