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Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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3.—Gravid segment of same, lettering the same as in Fig. 2. AfterDiamare, 1893, pi. 1, Fig. 1. N ovary. Uterus at first represents a reticulum, in the meshes ofwhich are situated the testicles; later it breaks up into egg-sacs orseveral eggs. Eggs with double shell. Adults parasitic in mam-mals. 1 Type species: Dipylidium caninum (Linnaeus). 2Synonyms: Dipylidium Leuckart, 1863; Microtaenia Sedgwick, 1884, INFECTION WITH DOUBLE-PORED TAPEWORM DIPYLIDIUM CANINUM1 (LINNAEUS, 1758). Specific Diagnosis.—Dipylidium: Strobila 15 to 35 cm. long;head small, globular; rostellum club-shaped, with 3 to 4 trans-verse rows of hooks (about 60 in number) of rose-thorn form; theanterior hooks 15 microns; the posterior hooks 6 microns; suckersrelatively large, rather elliptical. Segments 80 to 120 in number;gravid segments 8 to 11 mm. long, 1.5 to 3 mm. broad, often red-dish, brown in color. Genital pores at equator or in posterior halfof segment; uterus forms egg-capsules, each containing 8 to 20
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Fig. 4.—Head of same, showing four rows of rose-thorn hooks on therostellum and four unarmed suckers. Original. eggs; eggs globular, 43 to 50 microns in diameter; eggshellthin; oncosphere 32 to 36 microns. Hosts.—Adult in dogs, cats, and man; larva in lice (Tricho-dectes canis) and fleas (Pnlex serraticeps, P. irritans). While this is one of the smaller tapeworms, it cannot be lookedupon as harmless, for it sometimes burrows into the intestinal Synonyms: Taenia canina Linneaus, 1758; T. moniliformis Pallas,1781; T. cucumerina Bloch., 1782; T. elliptica Batsch, 1786; T. (Dipyli-dium) (Linnaeus) Leuckart, 1863. 132 CH. WARDELL STILES mucosa making a tunnel-like channel, through which the segmentsare pulled much like a train of cars passing through a tunnel. Clinical Diagnosis.—In diagnosis, search should be made inthe feces for the peculiar elongated elliptical tapeworm segments.Microscopic examination of the feces for eggs is less certainthan in case of infection with Taenia sagi

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