Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1904-04-15
worms IN WATER
Some Useful Facts Regarding Para
sites in the Human System
and their Source

The worms found in our body
are various: /, some are living in
the intestinesi 2, some in the
muscles.
1, Those living in the intestines
are A, cylinderic and the trioocep
haIes, or b, tapped as taenia, ordi
narily called tape worms, etc
A, The first or cylindric al
probably introduced in the digestive
canal by drinking water which is
not tiltRted. Everybody knows tho
ascaries, so common among childrea
Of a pale rose color with both ex
tremities finer, Is 20 20 centimetre-
long, living in the small intestine
and sometimes very abundant.
They are often the cause of diges
tive trouble (vomitlng, swelling Of
the abdomen, collie, diarrhoea) or OF
nervous disturbances Commissions,
trouble of intellect, paralysis, etc J
Everybody knows the treatment
(semen-c contra santonin, corsioan
moss, etc., b, The oxzines is like
piece of white thread 8 to 10 mill.
metres long, very frequent among
children, living in the rectum or
anus where it produces great itch
ing. A rectal injection, water mixed
with salt or vinegar is ordinarily
sufficient to destroy them. c, The
tricociphale needs the doctors inter
vention.
B, The tape worms or taenias are
of few varieties and want two
different individuals or animals t.
reach finally the intestines where
they attain in a short time length
of a few feet and even five to seven
yards. For a long time the scien.
lists believed that the taenias were
all the same, originated from pork
But they were also found on the
people never eating pork like the
Jews, and according to strict obser-
vation they are of two different
kinds, the taenia solium or armed
taenia coming from pork, and the
unarmed taenia or mediacanellata.
The taenia solium makes its first
evolution in pork which swallows
the eggs with food or drinks, the
shell of those eggs is dissolved in
the stomach and the embryon is
free, pass in the intestines and then
reaches the cellular tissue where it
becomes cysticercus. 1t stays in
this form as long as it remains in
pork, and attains its full develop
ment when it is introduced in the
stomach OF another animal like
man, etc. Where the cystic mem.
brane are absorbed and frees the
worms which can then reach its full
formation. Generally the worm
goes in the first part of the small
intestine where il is fixed by four
hooks and between these are four
suckers which absorb the nutritive
liquid from the body. It's develop
ment is rapid and it reaches a length
of few yards as already said.
The body is composed of a large
number of rings bearing both sexual
organs, which are detected with the
excremental substances. These
mixed with water or distributed in
the fields are often swallowed by
pigs, and then the. eggs leave the
stomach to form a now family of
cysticercus.
The second kind Of taenia is the
unarmed which is passing in OK or
calf, the same evolution as the
taenia solium in pork, the difference
between the two is that the first has
no hooks. is larger and leaves the
body without the knowledge of man.
It is sufficient to boil the flesh which
carries both taenias TO temperature
Of zoe G. to kill the cysticercus. The
other kinds concern only the doctors.
2, Worms living in the muscles,
The triohiuos (trichina spiralis) dis
covered by Hilton in 1882, and called
by this name by Owen, has been.
according to zeaker, the cause of
terrible epidemics in England and
other parts Of Europe. Today it is
well known, it is a worm very fine,
1 millimetre long, rolled to "a IN
itself, contained in a calcareous cyst, /
living in considerable quantity in
the muscles Of pork, wild boar, rat,
fox, skunk, etc. Pork probably
absorbs them from rats or purified
animals The herbivorous animals
are never affected with it. If the
cyst is introduced ia the stomach it
Is dissolved and the worm free
perforates the digestive canal and
goes In the muscles Il multiplies
20 largely that the health IS com
plsiely disturbed and death is
frequent and without any remedy
favorably known As the tempera-
iure Of So degrees G. kills it, the
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