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swine, pussy-cats, jackdaws and badgers, frogs and moles, crows, 
hedgehogs and hawks, and when man consumes the flesh of them he 
takes the living worms into his stomach, and thus offers his own body 
to them as a domicile. * 
The Christian portion of the English community delights in the 
flesh of swine, and utterly disregards the law of Moses which I have 
quoted, since in one of our largest and most popular schools swine’s 
flesh is administered to the boys twice in the week, winter and summer, 
_ hot or cold. With regard to the other animals, the Englishman is not 
much addicted to their consumption, at least not wittingly ; the flesh 
of cats is unknown amongst us as a viand, unless under the appetizing 
form of a sausage, a saveloy or a mutton-pie. The Frenchman, on 
the contrary, is said to revel in cat; Dr. Althaus tells us that “in 
Paris cat’s flesh is notoriously served up in certain cabarets, and men 
may become infected with Trichinosis by eating such ragouts.” But 
unhappily for this hypothesis, although perhaps happily for the 
Parisian, there is no authenticated case of Trichinosis in the capital 
of Europe. I can hardly however assert that our neighbours escape 
the deleterious effects of this feline food, since catalepsy is of frequent 
occurrence among them, and we know, or at least we ought to know, 
that the very name of this fearful disease is derived from catus, Lin., a 
cat, and depteos, petendus, capiendus, sumendus, that is the hunting, 
capturing and devouring of cats. As for jackdaws, badgers, moles 
and crows, hedgehogs and hawks, we have little or no knowledge of 
them as comestibles. Let us dismiss this part of the inquiry, content- 
ing ourselves with the reflection that when we provide swine’s flesh 
for schools we are compelling the rising generation to give in their 
adhesion to a diet of worms. 
Microscopists-have been for years acquainted with the existence of 
a minute vermiform entozoon inhabiting the human body, and until 
lately it was regarded as a harmless animal, and rather a microscopic 
curiosity than a source of danger. Its origin, as well as its life-history, 
long remained a problem for which neither medical practitioners nor 
zoologists could offer a satisfactory solution ; and the untenable hypo- 
thesis of spontaneous generation—that ever-present refuge of the 
ignorant—was freely resorted to by way of explanation. From experi- 
ments made by Virchow, Leuckart and Claus it has, however, been 
clearly established that if animals, as dogs and cats, be fed with flesh 
containing Trichinz, that other Trichine are produced in the intes- 
tines, and that these produce eggs and living progeny, which latter 
penetrate the coats of the intestines and “ migrate into the body, more 
