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

character, some were so completely filled with such particles even to the exclusion of all the blood corpuscles, as to be recognisable only as blood vessels, by their mode of ramification. Their tunics had become so attenuated as not to be visible under the microscope, & the mass of molecules within them pre= sented the appearance of casts of their interior. In these vessels the coat ap= peared to have been destroyed, & the molecu= lar matter to have become extravasated among the muscular fibres. See Plate 3, fig: 4. which is the representation of a blood vessel 1/333 of an inch in diameter filled with organic molecules from the heart of a Pig very much infested with cysticerci. Although in the instance above mentioned the quantity of organic molecules in the blood vessels was so abundant as to be easily detected, yet I may observe that in most cases of cysticerci I have not been able to find these molecules in the capil= laries, especially when they contained blood corpuscles, so that I am not enabled to state that the presence of mole= cules in these vessels in sufficient quan= tity to admit of detection by the microscope is invariably practicable. However in all cases, the smaller blood vessels & capil= laries are in an abnormal condition, but whether this is wholly attributable to the irritation of the incipient entozoa, or to some other cause is a point which I have
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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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