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or some other empyreumatic substance, we find that eating 

 cooked pork is not entirely devoid of danger. It has, how- 

 ever, been shown by Virchow that a temperature of 210°, 

 or a warm fumigation of twenty-four hours duration, infal- 

 libly destroys the Trichinae. 



I have given this short account of the Trichina this even- 

 ing, thinking that it might be of interest to the members 

 of the Institute, aud especially because I have met with 

 two cases of this disease in this city. I was invited by Dr. 

 C. D. Mosher to see two of his patients, one of whom was 

 evidently dangerously sick, and yet presented a train of 

 symptoms which did not conform to any of the ordinary dis- 

 eases which prevail in this locality. Two boys of German 

 parentage came into the house hungry one morning, and 

 finding a piece of pork upon the table ate some of it raw. 

 The remainder was cooked and eaten by the family at din- 

 ner time. A few days afterward the elder boy, aged four- 

 teen years, became sick and vomited several times. Was fe- 

 verish, and his eye-lids and face were swollen. Then a 

 general soreness attacked his whole body and limbs, which 

 confined him to the bed for a few days, after which it 

 gradually abated, so that when I saw him some six weeks 

 afterward he was quite well, except slight soreness on pres- 

 sure about the muscles of the arms. The younger boy, 

 aged ten years, was not so fortunate. He, too, became sick 

 a few days after eating the pork. His face and limbs be- 

 came swollen, and he was attacked with a severe diarrhoea. 

 The muscular soreness became intense, and he walked on 

 his toes with the heels off" the ground for three weeks, 

 after which he was obliged to lie still in bed, the least 

 motion causing extreme pain. About this time a trou- 

 blesome cough commenced, and the effort of coughing 

 increased the soreness. He could not sit up, but remained 

 stiff and extended upon his back. The least pressure 

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