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elusive, and from tliiK time forth Trkhiniasis, or Trichinosis, has 

 become a recognised disease. Tlie eyes of the German Physicians 

 were now opened, and it was very soon found that the disease 

 prevailed very extensively in Germany. Cobbold, quoting 

 JJevaine, gives a list of 26 epidemics, which were noted in 

 Germany during the follo\ving six years, in which over 1,500 

 people were involved. The histories of the epidemics are much 

 the same as the one I have just related, the source being dis- 

 covered in a particular meat or a particular butcher's shop. 



Although probably, Germany has had more than her share, 

 she has by no means enjoyed a monopoly of the article. M. Mouri 

 found Trichinous pork coming from Barcelona into France, in 

 1876. An ei^'demic also occurred in Valencia, about this time. 

 Twenty-eight persons having dined from the meat of a particular 

 pig, were all aflFected and six died. In 1879, Trichinae were 

 found in Barcelona and other parts of Spain. In 1870, some 

 cases of Trichinosis were landed in Hobart Town, but as the 

 ship sailed from Hamburg, they would more properly belong to 

 the German series. 



Our own country has fortunately experienced little of this 

 disease, in fact, as far as I have been able to ascertain, only one 

 unquestioned epidemic has been recorded. This occurred at 

 Workington, in Cumberland, in 1871. Dr. Dickinson, of that 

 place, was called to see the widow of a farmer. She was suffering 

 from acute pains in the limbs, \^'ith difficult breathing. Her face 

 was swollen, and her arms, legs and hands, were (edematous with 

 dropsical effusion. His first thought was, that the case was one 

 of Scarlatinal Dropsy. Her daughter, and subsequently a man 

 servant were attacked in the same way. Dr. Dickinson's suspicions 

 were then aroused, and on investigation, he found that for two or 

 three weeks previously they had been eating daily, sausages, and 

 roast and boiled pork, obtained fi'om an old sow, home fed. They 

 subsequently recovered. 



In June, 1876, a death occurred in the London Hospital, 

 which was put down to Trichinosis, but little of the history of the 

 case is kuo^\•n. 



Then at the end of 1879, an epidemic broke out on board 

 the Reformatory Ship, Cornwall, at Pui-fleet. Forty-three boys 

 were attacked, of whom one died. The illness was for some time 



