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

any animalcule which I have examined, & therefore, perhaps this is not effected until it quits its confined locality between the muscular fibres & gains access to the free surface of a mucous membrane - there, according to some physiologists to be farther developed into a higher form of entozoon. In the preceding observations on the development of the Cysticercus cellulosae, I have confined myself entirely to such facts as are sufficiently obvious & easy of verifi- cation, as to leave no doubt of their general accuracy, also to those explanations of their meaning which appear to be almost self- evident; & I might have concluded this paper had there not remained some con- siderations entirely of a theoretical nature too important to be omitted. It will be asked, how the Cysticercus in its earliest condition, such as I have described it, finds access to the interior of a primary fasciculus. Before attempt- ing to answer this question I must observe that my description commences from a con= dition of this entozoon so complete, that no one, on examining it with the microscope & comparing it with those forms in which the development is more advanced would doubt their perfect similarity. But this form though so low is very far from being the earliest indication of an abnormal state of the muscular fibres of all those animals which are infested
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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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