Transactions Of The American Microscopical Society Vol 28 PDF Download

Excerpt from Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 39: January, 1920 From this it is seen that the degree of infestation of the host is comparatively small. Whereas the number of adults met with was quite limited, larvae were very plentiful when present at all. In situ all of the adults and most of the larvae were found free in the stomach or intestine, but many larvae - forty-one in the case of the third fish in the table - were attached to the bottoms of deep pits in the mucosa of the pyloric region of the stomach. These pits were not mere depressions of the wall of the stomach but actual cavities, as shown in figure 7, bordered by a pronounced annular thickening of the mucous membrane and as much as 2mm. In dia meter. Larvae ranging in size from almost the smallest met with to those near the adult stage in development were tightly crowded into these pits and at the same time strongly contracted longitudinally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.