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Indian Medical Department has contributed to the 

 February number of the Madras Monthly Journal of 

 Medical Science, a series of papers on this subject ; 

 commencing with a " Report • on the prevalence of 

 Cysticercus in the ration beef at Jullundur, Punjab, with 

 observations, as to the probable sources of infection, and 

 the results of consumption of this meat as an article of 

 food." In this connection, also, I have received a' 

 valuable record from the pen of Assistant- Surgeon Joseph 

 Fleming, M.D., of the Army Medical Staff, who was 

 long stationed in Northern India. 



Dr. Fleming, recognising the practical value of our 

 researches conducted at the Royal Veterinary College in 

 England, was amongst the earliest, if not the very first, 

 to discover the existence of beef measles in India. In 

 the pages of the Indian Medical Gazette, for 1869, he 

 drew attention to the subject, and pointed out to the 

 authorities the methods of preventing this form of 

 parasitism ; basing his statements on our experimental 

 results, on his own frequent inspection of cattle in 

 slaughter-yards, and also on examinations of the local 

 sanitary conditions of many cattle -rearing districts, 

 especially in the Punjab. It is impossible to do full justice 

 to Dr. Fleming's useful observations ; but amongst other 

 things, he remarks that about eight per cent of the 

 European and Native Inhabitants of the Punjab are 

 afflicted with tapeworm. As we shall see, this parasite is 

 chiefly derived from eating beef. 



The beef measle is a larval cestode, or in other words 

 one of the sexually immature stages of development of a 

 tapeworm which infest the human body (Tcenia medio- 

 canellata) ; this mature worm being, as I have repeatedly 

 shown, far more frequent as a human guest than 



