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MISCELLAMY. 



Trkliinotts Pork. Triduna S2)iralis was 

 first discovered by Owen, in 1835, in hu- 

 man muscular tissue. Some twenty years 

 later the parasite, as seen by Owen, namely, 

 as a minute worm coiled up within a cyst, 

 was found by Herbst to be the larva of a 

 thread-like worm. The latter passes its 

 life in the intestinal canal, the former in- 

 habits the muscular tissue. When the flesh 

 of animals infested by the larvae is taken 

 into the stomach, the immatuie trichinae 

 quickly multiply, and in the course of a few 

 days millions of the encysted larvag may be 

 found in the muscles. As has been shrewd- 

 ly conjectured, it is not Improbable that 

 the prohibition of pork as food, a prohibi- 

 tion enforced not only among the Jews, but 

 among various races inhabiting widely-sep- 

 arate regions of the earth, had its origin in 

 an observation of injurious consequences 

 attending the use of swine's flesh. Dr. Sut- 

 ton's " Report on Trichinosis," noticed in 

 our January number, is worthy of the at- 

 tention, not only of medical men, but of the 

 public. We give herewith the result of his 

 observations on the cases of the disease 

 which came under his notice, and of his 

 examination of hundreds of specimens of 

 pork : 



1. He foimd that all the cases which 

 came under his observation were produced 

 by eating uncooked or imperfectly-cooked 

 pork. 2. He reiterates the uniform teach- 

 ing of medical observers that the vitality 

 of the trichinae can be destroyed only by 

 thorough cooking of the meat, and that the 

 eating of merely smoked or dried pork is 

 dangerous. 3. From raici o-copie examina- 

 tions of pork kiileJ in Southeastern Indi 



