Crossword-Solution: TAPEWORMS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Palm mentions the fact of four tapeworms existing in one person; and Mongeal has made observations of a number of cases in which several teniae existed simultaneously in the stomach.

Cobbold reports the case of four simultaneous tapeworms; and Aguiel describes the case of a man of twenty-four who expelled a mass weighing a kilogram, 34.5 meters long, consisting of several different worms.

Garfinkel mentions a case which has been extensively quoted, of a peasant who voided 238 feet of tapeworms, 12 heads being found.

Kennedy reports cases in which tapeworms have been expelled from infants five, and five and one-half months old.

May not other tides cast up on other shores other oysters whose lives have been rendered miserable by the presence of pearls? Byron says--"Even an oyster may be crossed in love." Science, more precise and frank than the frankest of poets, tells us that oysters are afflicted with tapeworms, and to kill the germ of these indecent pests, enclose them in untimely tombs, which from the human standpoint are among the most lovely and precious of gems.