Organs containing hydatids should be destroyed by burning in order to prevent their being eaten by dogs.
Hydatids have been found in the different passages leading to the cranium, but they have not penetrated.
From facts within my own knowledge I can confidently assert that parasites in general, and hydatids in particular, play a far more important part in the production of disease and death than is commonly supposed.
The Hunterian Museum, Lincoln’s Inn, exhibits four or five alleged examples of hydatids from the kidney of the sheep, besides another from the spleen.
Two of the enormous hydatids taken from these cysts are preserved in the collection of the Anatomy School of Oxford.
The hydatids do not usually protrude much beyond the surface of the infested organ, but lie imbedded within its parenchymatous substance.
Of eleven preparations of human hydatids which I observed in the Cambridge Anatomical Museum, apparently representing the same number of cases, seven were connected with the liver and one with the lungs.
Especially instructive, also, from a clinical point of view, is a case of peritoneal hydatids where the tumours had been diagnosed to represent a case of extra-uterine fœtation.
The appearance of hydatids varies very much according to their mode of formation, to the kind of host in which they are present, and to the character of the organs in which they happen to take up their residence.
Remarks on Mr. Scruby’s case of Hydatidsin the Liver of a Sheep,” ‘Trans.
Were visitors to judge by the contents of the catalogue of this series (which I prepared some years ago at the instance of the Council of the College), they might be led to suppose that the hydatids were only feebly represented.
I am in possession of hydatids from the liver of a clouded tiger (Felis macroscelis).
There are certain signs common to hydatids in any situation; there are others which are due to particular circumstances.
The result in any case of hydatids of the liver is much influenced by the mode of treatment adopted and the period at which it is undertaken.
I have not been an exhaustive reader on the subject, but I can well understand how they may have been called hydatids on examination of the sacs without looking at the contents.
A necessarily fatal termination must also ensue when the hydatids penetrate the ascending vena cava, but this accident is, fortunately, very rare.
In this malady, there is a loss of equilibrium between the nervous and muscular systems, which may arise from hydatids in the brain, offering mechanical obstructions to the conducting power of the nerves.
The young hydatids are found adhering to the inner surface of the parent cavity.
The variety caused by hydatids can only be prevented by the use of dry, well grown, wholesome food.
Showing the extent to which hydatids sometimes distend the ventricles of the brain; a.
Hydatids of the liver itself seldom give rise to jaundice, their position being usually such as not to interfere with the biliary function.
There were slight opacities in many parts of the tunica arachnoides; in the ventricles about four ounces of water were contained--some large hydatids were discovered on the plexus choroides of the right side.
There were some large hydatids on the plexus choroides: in the ventricles about a tea spoonful of water was observed: the consistence of the brain was particularly firm, but it could not be called elastic.
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