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its appearance after this treatment, as may well be 

 supposed. Taenia helminthosis is constant and general 

 in Abyssinia, and they there commonly eat raw beef. 

 Those who do not eat meat, as the monks of certain 

 orders there, who live only on fish and flour, never 

 have the taenia. Euppell and many others have noticed 

 this fact. Mons. Kiichenmeister says that at Nordhausen, 

 in the Hartz, as well as throughout all Thuringia, 

 measles are very prevalent among pigs ; and as the 

 people are in the habit of eating minced pork, both 

 raw and cooked, spread on bread for breakfast, this 

 country may be looked upon as the Abyssinia of the 

 north. 



The doctor at Zittau caused a man who was con- 

 demned to death, to take, seventy-two hours before his 

 execution, some cellular cysticerci from a measled pig; 

 and he found in the duodenum of the man four young 

 taenige, and six others in the water in which they had 

 washed the intestines. The latter had no hooks, but 

 those of the former had some in every respect similar to 

 those of the Tsenia solium. 



We have ourselves caused a pig to swallow eggs of 

 the taenia, and have given it the measles. Messrs. 

 Kiichenmeister and Haubner, who were ordered by the 

 government of Saxony to make some experiments, also 

 caused three pigs to swallow eggs of the Tsenia solium, 

 and two of these were affected with measles. A piece of 

 flesh, weighing 4|- drams, contained 133 cysticerci, which 

 amounts, for 22 German lbs., to 88,000 cysticerci. 



The use of raw pork will produce taeniae more readily 

 than raw beef. Dr. Mesbach has given the following 

 instance in support of this fact. At Dresden, a father 



