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A great number of species in this group of promptly relieved. Until the absce is opened, it should | animals lead a parasitic life, that is to say, they live in be poulticed with a linseed poultice, which retains the heat | the body of some other animal, usually a vertebrate, longer than a fomentation, and which should be renewed.| which is technically known as the “ host.” Forty-seven » as soon as it is cold. The poultice should be covered in | species are known to infest man, though, fortunately, the oil-silk and some wool and a bandage. The hand should | majority of the searer are. Those worms which in structure then be slung up on to the opposite shoulder, as in this | are specially ag ear to a parasitic existence often pa posits eere Bees ener poe The diet should be light | their life in two oats the cncile Cte See S ut nourishing, and any tendency to constipation that boty pamee in one host whilst tho mature worm in ry may be present should receive attention. an of an entirely different species. For instance,; [s. 425]