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supposed to be Typhoid Fever. Mr. W. H. Power, sent by the 

 Local GoTemment Board, inquired into the matter, and discovered 

 that the iUness was closely related to the consumption of 

 some American Pork. This circumstance, naturally suggested 

 Trichinosis as a possible cause. The body of the boy was 

 exhumed ; no traces of Typhoid were found, but the muscles were 

 infested with what were considered to be Trichinge. Dr. Cobbold 

 has some doubt about it, and suggests that the illness may. have 

 been due to some as yet undescribed Nematode worm. Most 

 people inchne to the view, however, that it was really Trichinosis. 

 The mention of American Pork, naturally directs our 

 attention to that country. When the ravages of Trichinosis were 

 first detected in Germany, the people hailed with satisfaction the 

 idea of obtaining their pork fi'om a foreign and presimiably 

 uncontaminated source. Their hopes have been doomed I fear to 

 disappointment. We find Trichinae were discovered in American 

 Pork, imported into Europe in 1874, and in 1878, Professor 

 Heschel, of Vienna, stated that an examination of hams fi-om 

 America, disclosed the fact that a large number were Trichinised. 

 In the following year, the Swiss Local Government Board, noted 

 that at ThionviUe, large numbers of Trichince had been detected 

 in pork ft-om America. In the Lancet of February 5th, of this 

 vear, !M. Leclerc states that he found Trichinae in pork sent to 

 Lyons, in sufficient quantity to poison the whole town. The 

 Americans, at any rate at first, denied all this, stating that the 

 flesh worm was unknown in their country. A short inquiry into 

 the matter may be therefore not uninteresting. As far back as 

 1842, very soon after the discovery of Trichinte, we find Bowditch 

 reported cases (that is of discovery of the muscle worm) in the 

 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Then, in the Spring of 

 1866, the Chicago Academy of Sciences appointed a committee to 

 examine into the facts. The result was, that out of 1,394 hogs 

 ft-om the various packing houses and stalls of Chicago, 28 were 

 found to be infected, i.e., 1 in 50, which they say would indicate 

 that Trichinosis is even more common in America then in 

 Germany. In 1878, Drs. Attwood and Belfield made a further 

 inquiry at Chicago, with the result, that on an average 8 out of 

 100 were infected, a much larger percentage than on the former 

 occasion. During 1866-67, Dr. Ude inspected 75,911 slaughtered 

 pigs, in the Duchy of Brunswick. Eleven only were found to 



