The Diptera resemble the Entozoa in a striking manner through their apodal, soft and white larvæ, and even through their habitation, which is mostly in fetid and moist animal matters.
Upon the mouth these Entozoa have some papillæ or points, which may be regarded as tentacula.
The White-blooded Worms or Entozoa are very imperfect animals, a fact which proves that this circle recommences quite inferiorly or from below.
Parasites: A Treatise on theEntozoa of Man and Animals.
Parasites: a Treatise on the Entozoaof Man and Animals.
As would be reasonably supposed, entozoa commonly gain access to their hosts through the food and drink, though in the case of aquatic animals they also obtain entrance directly through the integument from the surrounding medium.
Many entozoa also belong to the protozoa, but these, so far as relates to man in a medical point of view, appear unimportant, and will therefore not here enter into consideration.
By far the greater number of entozoa are peculiar animals, constituting the chief part of the scolecides, an extensive group of the sub-kingdom of vermes or worms.
In the course of their life entozoa undergo changes of form and condition, and pass these in different organs of the same or of different animals, and it may be for a brief period externally or in a non-parasitic state.
Many species of entozoa have been discovered in man, and most of them are peculiar in kind.
Mostly, the entozoa pass one stage of existence within the intestine of some animal, and another stage in different organs of other animals.
Cobbold, “Remarks on Spurious Entozoafound in Diseased and Healthy Cattle,” ‘Path.
I stated at the time that these entozoa were identical with certain flukes previously obtained from the duodenum and biliary ducts of an Indian elephant, and which, though carefully preserved in the Boston Museum, U.
There are two other cases in which these larval entozoa were passed with the urine.
Those hydatids displayed in the “special series” of entozoa were of uncertain seat.
Most of the entozoa displayed in the Charing Cross Hospital Museum have been contributed by Dr Wiltshire, the series being particularly strong in tapeworms.
He also described the morbid states with which these entozoa were commonly associated.
There are gregariniform entozoa residing in meat which we eat every day without any bad consequences.
The entozoa of the edentulate mammals are not very numerous.
A good many whales have been captured of late years off our English and Scottish coasts, but, unfortunately, very little effort has been made to collect the numerous entozoa which they undoubtedly will have contained.
Certainly a great deal of good might accrue from the acquisition of more extended evidence respecting the prevalence of this and other forms of entozoa infesting man and animals in this country.
These entozoa are found in general on the surface of the intestines, between them and their outer membrane (peritoneum), and on the exterior of the lungs and liver.
It spends its whole existence there, and is distinguished from other entozoa by having the mouth between two pores on each side, through which a spicular process comes out.
If, then, this view of the production of entozoa be received, it must be held as in no small degree favourable to the general doctrine of an organic creation by law.
We think the hypothesis is also supported in some degree by the fact, that the origin of the entozoa is favoured by all causes which tend to disturb the equality between the secerning and absorbent systems.
We now come to a perfectly distinct tribe of insect parasites, which belong to that section or order of intestinal worms which Rudolph has denominated Entozoa nematoidea, and Lamarck Vers rigidules[1009].
Mr. MacLeay has arranged them in the same Class with the Hexapods, and connects them with the Anoplura by means of certain intestinal worms of an indistinct annulose structure[1244] (Entozoa Nematoidea Rud.
Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock- carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause.
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