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much of his daily food, are bound up in the consideration of much 

 of entozoic life. The fearful ravages amongst the inhabitants of 

 Iceland, the occasional outbreaks in other countries, remain as 

 warnings for the adoption of necessary precautions, and from what 

 has been elucidated from the before-named specimen, may, I think, 

 well make the timid shudder at the " underdone chop." Thus " the 

 more we learn of parasitic disease in man, as Dr. Gamgee says, 

 the better we can understand how even the underdone roast beef 

 of old England may prove our poison as well as food." 



