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tliey are put into the frying pan, or in the preparation of home- 

 made sausages before drying. 



But we also see the possibility of the Cysticerci being intro- 

 duced into private houses with the articles of animal food pro- 

 cured from the butchers 5 shops to be eaten without preparation, 

 such as raw hams, and blood and liver sausages, especially when 

 these articles of food are purchased by retail in small portions, 

 when the Cysticerci have been transferred to them by the knife 

 used in cutting them up. 1 Thus, for example, my wife found 

 Cysticerci in the water used in washing sausages, which must have 

 been adhering to the hands of the butcher when filling the 

 sausages, and thus have been transferred to the external surface 

 of the gut. Lastly, the direct proof of these assertions has been 

 furnished by myself, in making the following experiments upon a 

 murderer condemned to death. 72, 60, 36, 24, and 12 hours before 



1 Several mistakes have lately been made with regard to the manner in which 

 T. solium is communicated, and these have been referred to me. Thus, according to 

 Thompson (' Uber die Krankheiten und Krankheitsverhaltnisse auf Island,' Schleswig, 

 1855, p. 72), I have stated that " Tmnia solium is very general in certain districts where 

 the common people eat raw bacon upon bread." As the Cystic, celluloses never 

 occurs in the fat, but only in the flesh, I have spoken of the use of raw meat. More- 

 over, further observations are constantly being made known, that the use of raw meat 

 generally disposes to T&nice. In seven anremic children brought up upon raw flesh, 

 Seharlan, of Stettin, found tape-worms, and these were said to have had no raw pork. 

 But whether these children had not once had raw pork, or whether raw beef does not 

 also frequently contain the germ of the common tape-worm, is a matter for further investi- 

 gation. To return to Thompson, I do not blame him greatly for his statement, as I con- 

 sider it as an error of a verbal nature. But we have not to do with a verbal error, but 

 with ignorance of what I have said, and the presumption of criticising a work without 

 taking the trouble of reading the original, as in the note of Dr. Behrend, the editor of 

 Henke's 'Zeitsehrift fiir Staatsarzneikunde,' which is appended to page 71 of Riecke's 

 article, in which the latter calls attention to the importance of my investigations to 

 police-office! s. " But the Jews, probably because Moses was already acquainted 

 with Kiichenmeister's metamorphosis of the tape-worms, in consequence of his pro- 

 hibition, did not eat pork at all, for the Asiatic Jews still live strictly according 

 to their religious laws and precepts. If this link in the chain is wanting, the explana- 

 tion falls to the ground." If M. Behrend had read the original, he would have seen 

 that I regard the occurrence of Cystic, celluloses, both in the roe and in other ruminants, 

 as especially possible in the east. The link in the chain therefore is not wanting. 

 M. Behrend continues — " Should not the kind auxiliaries of 1813 — 1815 rather be 

 taken into account by Herr Kuchenmeister ? " These auxiliaries have nothing at all to 

 do with the matter, except that perhaps during their sojourn in Germany, a greater 

 number of segments of T. solium may have passed off from human subjects on German 

 soil, more pigs may have become measly, and from these again more men may have been 

 infected. 



