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ing on pastures open to swine, or on land (market gardens, 

 orchards, etc.,) devoted to the raising of vegetables to be 

 eaten raw. Avoid raw meat, especially pork, even if 

 salted and smoked, and underdone meat and sausages, 

 also well-water from gravelly soils iu the vicinity of habi- 

 tations. 



MEASLES IN CATTLE. 



This consists in the presence in the muscles of cattle, 

 especially young ones, of a cystic parasite two to four Mnes 

 in length, (Cysticercus Mediocandlata) which as a mature 

 tape-worm (Tcenia Mediocanellata) inhabits the human 



Fig. 6. 



fig. 6 — Head of Taenia Mediocanellata, magniiied. 



bo wels. When the eggs were given experimentally to calves 

 they caused stiffness, wasting and death in three weeks. 

 Or improvement began at the end of a fortnight and ter- 

 minated ia apparent recovery, the live cysts of course re- 

 maining in the muscles and ready to develop into their 

 adult form when eaten by man. 



Under prevention and treatment might be repeated what 

 IS stated under measles of swine, merely substituting the 

 word cattle for pigs. The current practice of eating raw 

 beef ham is especially reprehensible. 



TAPE-WOEM OF SHEEP AND CATTLE. 



Toejiia Expamsa is the name of this worm, which causes 

 great loss in some localities in America, as well as in Aus- 

 tralia, Germany, etc. Its cystic form is unknown, there- 

 fore we can only check its increase by watching what 



