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body. In the dead body of Mr. Bemis, Linn county, Iowa, from 

 180,000 to 261,000 were found in pieces of muscle less than an 

 inch square. One may have trichinn3 in the body without any 

 serious illness. Where there are only a few he will scarcely per- 

 ceive them; where there are thousands there will be severe pain 

 in the nmscles, stiffness, weakness, hoarseness, fever, &c. 



This worm bears no particular resemblance to any other species 

 of worms, nor to maggots, which have another shape, and are 

 larger. If a piece of flesh containing the animal in shell be care- 

 fully inspected, the ovoid opaque shell can be just perceived as a 

 yellpwish white, and granule. If one of these carefully be 

 separated from the flesh, placed upon a slip of glass and a drop 

 of hydrocloric acid be added the shell slowly will be dissolved 

 and the animal become plain under a microscope of 60 degrees. 

 The cut siiould })e made in the diameter of the fibres and laid very 

 straight on the side. 



The preventive is well cooked pork. A trichiucX' exposed to 

 the boiling point invariably dies. A person who eats much 

 nutritious food, and whose digestion is rapid, will pass ofi" the 

 trichinte before the mother can breed her young. 



Mr. k?olon Robinson. — Almost thou persuadest me to be a — Jew. 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith, — The best remedy for this disease is not to 

 eat pork. 



Dr. Brown. — We should consider that the hog is our best 

 scavenger. We forget that Ave will be likely to avoid the disease 

 if we <>ive the hog; heathful food. 



Dr. Kichards. — Repeatedly is it stated that thoroughly to cook 

 the food is a sure remedy. The reason why this disease is not so 

 common in this country, is because we cook our food more than is 

 done in Germany. I consider that the thorough cooking of food, 

 particularly meat of all kinds, is an evidence of high civilization. 



A vote of thanks was presented to Dr. Brown, for his exceed- 

 ingly able and instructive address. 



Prof. Vauderwydc presented a photograph of the trichinae in a 

 beautiful frame, colored almost as perfectly as such Avorms appear 

 when alive in the flesh of the pig. 



Hollow Hoen. 



Mr, Wm. Barnes, Alden. Mc Henry county, 111,: My remedy is 

 a tablespoonful of pulverized copperas given twice a week in meal 

 or bran ; and. if the weather is cold, a tablespoonful of spirits of 



