30 ANIMAL FOOD RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



undergo a transformation which will render it dangerous, 

 when the disease has attained any height, and especially 

 when it has changed the blood. 



The usage of the flesh of animals which have died of 

 gangrenous diseases, is often the cause of great danger 

 to man. It has been found that the meat of one diseased 

 animal has affected more than 100 persons, terminating 

 in the death of many. 



Allusion may here be made to some recent cases, well 

 known. Many hundreds of persons at Nordhausen, 206 

 at Wurzen, and 197 persons at Zeitz, were more or less 

 seriously attacked, of whom many died. The great 

 intensity of the poison shows that it cannot be checked 

 by the ordinary preparation of food and insufficient 

 cooking. 



In many of the diseases from which animals suffer, 

 the poisonous property is not always in the flesh, but 

 changes are brought about, so that the meat decomposes 

 rapidly after it is killed, and it becomes extremely 

 dangerous as human food. This is especially noticeable 

 in those which have had severe fever, and where what- 

 ever may have been the disease, they have been killed 

 just before they would have died naturally. 



According to an official report for the year 1873, there 

 were killed from necessity (Nothschachten) 4,189 

 ruminants and 6,002 pigs. In other States where 

 this necessitous slaughter is not controlled, it is pro- 

 bable that this is often done. The meat is generally 

 sold for food, and it is frequently the case that animals, 

 in the last death struggle from disease, are killed to 

 dispose of the meat. 



The following is a summary of Animal food that is 

 injurious, according to the German laws : — 



1. The flesh of animals that have died a natural 

 death. 



2. That of rabid animals, those suffering from glanders, 

 bloody spleen, gangrenous affections, whether of the 

 internal or external organs. 



3. That of animals killed during the disease, after 



