Note 286 — ON PARASITES IN GENERAL. (continued 8)

The Greeks termed the tapeworms ἕλμινθες πλατεῖαι, more rarely χηρία (= fascia); the Romans called them tænia, tinea, tæniola, later lumbrici, usually with the addition lati, to distinguish them from the Lumbrici teretes (Ascaridæ). The proglottids were called Vermes cucurbitini; the cysticerci χάλαζαι (hailstones), later hydatids. Plater (1602) was the first to differentiate Tænia intestinorum (= Bothriocephalus latus) amongst the Lumbrici lati of man from Tænia longissima (= Tænia solium). The term solium was already used by Arnoldus Villanovanus, who lived about 1300; and, according to him, it signifies “cingulum” (belt, chain), while N. Andry, in 1700, traces this word from “solus,” because the worm occurs always singly in man. Leuckart and Krehl derive the word “solium” from the Syrian “schuschl” (the chain), which in Arabian has become “susl” or “sosl,” and in Latin has become “sol-ium.” What Linnæus described under the term Tænia solium was really Tænia saginata; the latter was first distinguished by Goeze, but was forgotten until Küchenmeister, in 1852, again called attention to the differences.