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and more mysterious disease called " Trichinosis ; " in the 

 examination of which we shall see that it is possible for 

 a man to be eaten up of worms ; and we shall learn a 

 solemn and perhaps a useful lesson, that just as the intro- 

 duction of an invisible enemy will destroy the body, so 

 may it be with the 

 soul. 



Here, then, are 

 striated fibres of the 

 human muscle be- 

 tween which you will 

 see coiled up in an 

 oblong cyst (another 

 Greek word, signify- 

 ing a bladder) an un- 



rlnnKtarl am'*! nf Voluntary muscle, with two distinct attacks 



of trichina Drawn from nature. 



worm-like nature; and 



as this specimen came to me from a good and clever 

 man * \vho prepared it, and who knew something of the 

 unfortunate victim of the disease, I will tell you what 

 he has told me. But, here again, don't say, " No, whilst 

 ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." You need 

 not be alarmed ; it is only those who will eat raw or 

 badly cooked and inferior meat who are exposed to such 

 a terrible disease as trichinosis. Well, then, if you are 

 not a coward, listen ! 



A few years ago a man was driving a cart down one 

 of the crowded thoroughfares of the city near the London 

 Hospital. He fell down, apparently in a fit, and was taken 

 to the hospital, where, soon after, the poor fellow died. 

 When the inquest was held upon the body, it was dis- 

 covered that death was produced by a second swarm of 

 trichina? ; from the first he had recovered, and those dark 

 * Mr. J. T. Norman of the City Load. 



