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

the regularly spherical form of the particles of oil, & their arrangement in lines; also by their more equal refraction, & reflection of the light. The particles peculiar to the cystic disease very often occur where there is no fatty degeneration whatever, in no instance do they appear like those of the oil in fatty muscle to be formed at the expence of the sarcous matter, but to exist independently of it, & to be lodged between the smallest fibrillae tending to separate them longitudinally. Now as these particles always exist in conjunction with the earliest forms of cysticerci, & in such cases only; & as it is almost impossible that such a collection of cells & molecules as the one I have des- cribed as the earliest unmistakeable form of this entozoon could have at once come into existence in so characteristic a form as that delineated in Plate 2. fig 1. it is more than probable that the singular masses of particles above noticed, & repre= sented in Plate 2. fig. 9. are antecedent ambiguous forms of cysticerci, & that the molecules of which these groups are com- posed are the primary germ-particles of imperfect entozoa. And it is further worthy of remark that in some specimens of muscle which I have examined very much infested with cysticerci I have found some of the capillaries & small blood vessels containing molecules of an organic character
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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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