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Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals Including Some Account of the Ectozoa

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1. Part IV. TOC headings and text headings also vary in their specific

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2. BOOK I.

3. PART I.--Acanthocephala (Thornheaded Worms) 256

4. PART I.--Parasites of Quadrumana 289

" II.--Parasites of Cheiroptera 293 " III.--Parasites of Insectivora 295 " IV.--Parasites of Carnivora 297 " V.--Parasites of Pinnipedia 313 " VI.--Parasites of Rodentia 315 " V...

5. BOOK I.

Whatever notions people may entertain respecting the dignity of the human race, there is no gainsaying the fact that we share with the lower animals the rather humiliating privi...

6. BOOK II.

In dealing with this division of the subject it will be impossible to give more than the faintest outline. Let it be borne in mind that quite as much information might be offere...

7. PART I.--QUADRUMANA (Monkeys).

Monkeys are less afflicted with flukes than most animals. The species known to me are _Distoma laciniatum_, found by Brongniart in the pancreas of _Simia maimon_; _D. orbiculare...

8. PART II (CHEIROPTERA).

Until lately not very much attention had been paid to the parasites of bats, probably on account of the insignificance of the hosts. However, whilst Dr Dobson has recently been...

9. PART III (INSECTIVORA).

The entozoa of insectivorous mammals, though sufficiently numerous, are not important practically. The common hedgehog (_Erinaceus europæus_) is infested by four flukes (_Distom...

10. PART IV (CARNIVORA).

Notwithstanding the importance of the entozoa of this large section of mammals, I must deal with them very summarily, emphasising my remarks on the parasites of the dog and cat....

11. PART V (PINNIPEDIA).

Following the order of classification adopted in my description of the Mammalia in the ‘Museum of Natural History,’ I proceed to speak of the internal parasites of the seals (_P...

12. PART VI (RODENTIA).

Though very numerous, the parasites of this order are chiefly interesting as embracing those of the hares and rabbits, moles, mice, rats, squirrels, and beavers. Some slight not...

13. PART VII (EDENTATA).

The entozoa of the edentulate mammals are not very numerous. So far as I am aware only one species has been described from the scaly ant-eaters (_Manidæ_). This is the small and...

14. part iii, ‘Proc. Zool. Soc.,’ Feb. 1, 1876, p. 202.--_Marcgrav_, in

his ‘Historia rerum nat. Brasil.,’ 1648, p. 226, and in ‘Rudolphi’s Synopsis,’ p. 186.--_Molin_, “Una Monografia del gen. Spiroptera,” ‘Aus dem Sitzungsb. d. m.-nat. Cl. d. k. A...

15. PART VIII (RUMINANTIA).

In the matter of parasites this order of mammalian animals stands second in importance. An entire volume of the dimensions of the present would barely do justice to the subject....

16. PART IX (SOLIDUNGULA).

It will naturally be expected that I should give a full account of the parasites of the solipedal, solidungulate, or equine mammals. As regards the horse I regret that I cannot...

17. PART X (PACHYDERMATA)

Concerning the parasites and parasitic diseases of this miscellaneous assemblage of large mammals, I shall first speak of those of the proboscideans (Elephantidæ). Except by mys...

18. PART XI (CETACEA).

The parasites of whales are excessively numerous. Unfortunately only a few of the species have been carefully studied, and much confusion necessarily exists as to the number of...

19. PART XII (MARSUPIALIA).

The well-known fact that, in respect of their habits, the pouched mammals epitomise, as it were, the non-marsupial quadrupeds, would naturally lead us to look for a repetition o...

20. PART I (AVES).

A prodigious number of entozoa are known to infest birds. So far from birds being less victimised than mammals, the contrary is the case. Every now and then avian epizoötics, du...

21. PART II (REPTILIA).

Much that I have advanced in respect of the parasitism of birds holds good in the case of reptiles. I cannot recapitulate. The saurians, ophidians, and chelonians are extensivel...

22. PART III (PISCES).

Swarms of entozoa infest fishes, and it is hard to say whether they are less numerous in the inhabitants of fresh water than in those of salt water. More attention has been paid...

23. PART IV (EVERTEBRATA).

Since a large proportion of all those helminths that require a change of hosts must needs pass into the bodies of insects, crustaceans, mollusks, or other evertebrated animals,...