partially-cooked

Updated: May 13, 2025

When partially-cooked, measly pork is eaten by man, the gastric juice of the stomach dissolves the membranous sac which contains the living larva, and the animal soon passes into the intestines, where, clinging by its hooks, it holds on with wonderful tenacity, rapidly sending out joint after joint, until the perfect tapeworm sometimes attains a length of thirty feet.

Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop - Four Months in a Sneak-Box