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shows itself as rough, tuberculous sweings on the skin
and ns of many shes- both marine and freshwater. All
one can see in the sWelling is a number of large connective
tissue cells, somewhat like Cartilage cells, and these giant
cells have sometimesbeen
other Cases,
though not, often, malignant growths» have been f0und in
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shes (Iohnstone, 1924),and the proliferation of these bodies
,
has
to the growth of cancerous tutnouré, but
there is no reasor‘1to
disease in human
beings comes in -ànyway from -shes. ,
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Other bacteria getting into the blood and lymph (B
pesti"s
HOfÔÏ)’ ;‘cäùSeæinamniati0n ”Of «the internal
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organs=fas:-Well as, of
skin _(Iymphocyt0si3). The scales
standÏ—joutfand: matter-can be pressed_fror‘n under them by
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rùbbihg the hand along the side. In some cases the eyes
bulge out from an excess of uid within or behind the
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eye-ball, and it is probable that the huge excrescences seen
on the top of the head in
the articially produced
_Îa'pane5e varieties of the Carp
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sp0rdcySt,- affects the labynth
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to move.
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much trouble and anxiety in the
and leads
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loss.
the posterior portion of the :
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? tailfIOSes—it—s colour and may even turn black, so that it looks
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profundus branch of the great.lateral nerve, which;
"the ,cutaneous sense organs and skin of the:çaudàl
region, becomes affected as or before
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