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no deaths. This result was attributed to the employment of 

 phosphoric acid (Kupprecht). 



19. Hettstadt, February and March, 1864, 8 patients, no 

 deaths. Two cats were also attacked, one of which died. 

 Nearly 50,000 Trichina were counted in an infected leg of pork 

 (Kupprecht) . 



20. Quedlinburg, 1864, 120 patients, 2 deaths; benzine was 

 employed (Dr. Wolf). 



21. Hettstadt, January, 1865, 15 patients (Rupprecht) . 



22. Berlin, 1864, 3 cases (Dr Cronfeld). Several butcher 

 boys (Frischer). 



23. Leipzig, 1864, 14 patients, 2 deaths ; 4 were infested 

 after having eaten raw beef hashed on a block which had 

 previously received the flesh of a trichinised hog (Dr E. Wagner). 



24. Potsdam, 1864, 5 slight cases (Dr Mollendorf ) . 



25. Celle (Hanover), 1864, 8 patients (Dr Scheller and Dr 

 Baring) ; Trichina proven in the pork by Gerlach. In 1855, 12 

 Trichina (?) patients were treated by Schuchart. 



26. Hedersleben, 25th October, 1865, a pig was killed and 

 sold ; on the 28th the malady appeared amongst the workmen ; 

 350 patients, 100 deaths. Of 100 children infected, none died. 

 Trichina found in the autopsies (Dr F. Kratz). 



Dr Davaine also adds the following outbreaks : 



In Massachusetts, 1867, 6 patients from having eaten raw 

 ham, 1 death (' Medical Times/ 20th April, 1867, p. 431). 



Eavecchia (Bellinzona), 1868, 5 patients, 4 deaths (Dr Zang- 

 ger (in Landbote of Winterthur). 



Up to a comparatively recent date no case of trichinosis had 

 been recognised in England during the life of the victim. As 

 regards diagnosis, what was happening every day on the Con- 

 tinent was utterly unknown here. Whilst, however, not a 

 single instance of Trichina- disease had been observed by British 

 physicians in actual practice, as many as thirty or forty instances 

 had occurred where the parasites in question had been found 

 post mortem. I had myself examined the trichinised flesh 

 taken from a dozen of these corpses, but in no instance had 

 the faintest suspicion of trichinosis been entertained during 

 life. The circumstances attending the only outbreak of tri- 

 chiniasis that has been witnessed in England are very inter- 

 esting. In the month of April, 1871, I received from Dr 

 W. L. Dickinson, of Workington, Cumberland, specimens of 

 pork which he requested me to examine ; and in complying with 



