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From Patting Dogs. When humans eat infected meat that is not thoroughly cooked, the cysts are digested, releasing a tapeworm head that attaches itself to the wall of the intestine. The "beef tapeworm of man" (Taenia saginata) may grow to be 40 ft. long and half an inch wide. This is the species whose heads are occasionally sold as active ingredients of "reducing pills." They may be slightly effective by causing general debility (it is not true that tapeworms increase appetite), but a society of tapeworms coiled in the abdomen cannot improve the figure...
...GIFFORD.THE Zoological Club will meet to night in the Museum. Papers on Sexual Organs of Taenia eckinococeus, on the Development of Culex, and on Sipunculus Gouldii, Doors open from...
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