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these, as in Ireland or in many British piggeries, we must 

 expect hams, bacon, and pork sausages to be charged with the 

 embryonic forms of human entozoa. Whereas in Iceland the 

 dog is the victim of human negligence, and en revanche the 

 cause of human disease, in the British isles the pig holds this 

 unenviable position. We have good reason to believe, with 

 Moses, that the pig is an unclean beast ; but without discarding 

 him from the scanty list of animals to be eaten, it is evident 

 that we can purify the race of swine, and thus prevent human 

 as well as porcine maladies." 



On the authority of Rupprecht, as quoted by Davaine, I 

 append a list of the principal epidemics observed in Germany 

 during the first six years immediately following the discovery 

 of trichinosis : 



1. Two slight epidemics in 1860 in the Island of Riigen ; 

 10 to 20 patients (Dr Landois). 



2. An epidemic at Stolberg, 1860 (Dr Fricinus). The 

 number of trichinised persons was not stated with certainty. 



3. Five epidemics during five summers, 1858 to 1862, at 

 Magdebourg. The number of patients was 300, two only died 

 (Dr Sendler). 



4. An epidemic at Plauen in 1862, 20 patients (Bohler). 



5. Gusten, 1861, 40 cases, all cured (Frankel). 



6. Epidemic in the Province of Armsted (Mansfeld), 1861, 

 8 patients. 



7. Hettstadt, January and March, 1862, 8 to 10 patients. 



8. Blankenburg, 1862, 278 cases, 2 deaths. 



9. Calbe (Prussia), 1862, 38 cases (9 men, 25 women, 4 

 children), 8 deaths (Dr Simon and Dr Herbst). 



10. Burg, in Magdebourg, 1863, 50 patients, 10 deaths 

 (Dr Klusemann). 



11. Quedlinburg, 1863, 9 patients, 1 death (Dr Behrens). 



12. Plauen, 1863, 21 patients (Konigsdorffer) . 



13. Falkenstein, 1863, 4 patients (Drs Bascher and Pinter). 



14. Posen, August and September, 1863, o7 patients (Dr 

 Samter). 



15. Hamburg, 1863, 2 patients (Dr Tiingel). 



16. Blankenburg, 1863, 32 patients, 2 deaths; new cases in 

 1864 (Dr Scholz). 



17. Hettstadt (Prussian- Saxony), October, 1863, 158 patients, 

 27 deaths (Rupprecht). 



18. Eisleben, December, 1863, and January, 1864, 18 cases, 



