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THE DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



flesh, taken from the bone of one of the persons that died, was as- 

 sumed to contain one hundred thousand trichinse. 



Dr. Sutton says that " microscopic examination of thousands of 

 swine slaughtered in Indiana reveals three to sixteen per cent of 

 them as trichinous." This is an unfounded statement, there being 

 no authentic statistics of the examination of thousands of swine in 

 Indiana even now, nor at the time the above was written. 



The " Rochester Democrat," May 1, 1879, reports several cases 

 of trichiniasis in that vicinity. 



Cases have also been reported in the " Annals of the Michigan 

 Board of Health," at Otsego, Detroit, Port Huron, and other places, 

 several of which terminated fatally. 



In Saxony,* from 1860 to 1875, 39 different eruptions of the 

 disease had taken place. The whole number of cases reported was 

 1,267, with 19 deaths ; of the 19 that died, 3 out of 8 acquired the 

 disease from eating raw meat ; 2 out of 630 diseased from cold sau- 

 sage ; 8 of 340 from fried sausage, and 2 of 48 from eating raw ham. 



Of the 6,959,964 swine which were slaughtered in Saxony in 

 these sixteen years, only 39, 1 to 180,000, gave occasion to trichiniasis 

 in human beings. 



* Reinard, " Archiv d. Heilkunde," p. 241, 1877. t Accidentally found at the autopsy. 



% " Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Thiermedicin," Bollinger, Bd. 5, Hefte 3 u. 4, p. 204. 



