40 THE DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



was very slow, and accompanied by much muscular pain, cedema, 

 and weakness. In some cases distinct relapses were apparent. 

 The number of persons diseased was : 



Males 124 



Females 103 



Children 35 



Total 262 



Of these died : 



Males 3 



Women 3 



Total 6 



Of those that died, the cause seemed to be the exhaustive nature 

 of the fever, and the constitutional disturbances in the fourth and 

 fifth weeks of the invasion. The last fatal case was that of an eld- 

 erly woman, in the beginning of the eighth week of the invasion. 

 Some pieces of the musculus biceps brachii from this woman were 

 subjected to microscopic examination and numerous trichinae found 

 in the same. 



This is the first case of the kind reported in medical literature 

 from Oriental countries, and is also of value as showing that the 

 wild hogs of those regions also become trichinous as well as those 

 of Europe. 



"With reference to the observations of trichiniasis in the dead 

 body : 



Dr. Bowditch, of Boston, reported four cases during the years 

 1842-'44. 



Turner says of Scotland, that in five years 1 to 2 per cent of the 

 human cadavers were found trichinous. 



Fiedler found 2 to 2-5 per cent at Dresden. 



"Wagner, 1 to 30 or 40 at Leipsic. 



Reports of like nature come from other countries. 



Prevention of the Disease in Man. 



Aside from the regulations already given for the prevention of 

 the disease among hogs, which, if possible to be carried out, would 

 prevent it in man, there are several which must come into action as 

 public health preventive measures. 



There is but one golden rule to prevention : cook the i^orlc thor- 

 oughly ! 



Leuckart and other experimenters have shown that a tempera- 



