On the Structure and Development of the Cysticercus cellulosae, as Found in the Pig, by George Rainey

have not yet been able to ascertain. Their calibre is very irregular & some are much distended with blood corpuscles, & others have their coats so attenuated as not to be dis= tinctly visible. The condition of these vessels is best seen in muscles so small as to allow of microscopic examination without the necessity of mechanical separation of their fibres as in the muscles moving the eye-ball especially near to the part where the muscular fibres are connected with the tendon. Although the presence of these abnormal particles of an ambiguous character in the interior of the primary fasciculi, & that of minute molecules in the blood vessels & their capillaries, with the attenuation of their coats may not fully answer the question proposed as to the precise manner in which the first indubitable forms of cysticerci find their way into the muscular fibres, still I think they may be considered as a near approach to a demonstration, that the more perfect forms of these entozoa, as represented in Plate 2 fig: 1. exist at first as mere ger= minating particles & that they find their way to the muscular fibres through the medium of the blood. <s>As to the origin of these particles ad= mitting the probability of their being incipient states of a Cysticercus I have nothing to state but I think that the facts I have mentioned are<\s>
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- George Rainey
- Reference
- PT/56/8
- Series
- PT
- Date
- 1857
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On the Structure and Development of the Cysticercus cellulosae, as Found in the Pig, by George Rainey, 1857. From The Royal Society, PT/56/8
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