Excerpt from Human Cestoids: An Essay to Which Was Awarded the Second Prize of the Boylston Medical Society for 1867 Feeling the subject to be one of practical impor tance, as well as one of much interest, the writer feels, that, in presenting it to the notice of the Society, he has not worked for nothing. 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.