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- = in the subject. The former administered it toa 
rabbi ich was killed by the wandering of the young brood set free 
an. = intestine; the others, as well as Zenker, fed dogs with the 
owing the frequent occurrence of trichinæ in these m con- 
cluded that some connection would be found between the disease and 
the meat. On visiting the place, he found that the farmer n whom 
she had lived had killed a hog on December 31st, and that the ham 
and sausages, which still remained of it, contained numerous encysted 
trichinæ. He found, also, that the farmer and his wife and the butch- 
er had all been ” with symptoms similar, though milder, to those the 
girl had exhibite 
is case, so sone ea in itself, not only established the connection 
between trichina in the hog and in man, but demonstrated the exist- 
ence of an unsuspected and frightful disease, and explained much that 
had been mysterious in former cases of death from so-called sausage- 
poison and other unknown causes. It was followed by other epidem- 
d 
commissions have been appointed by many governments to study the 
disease, and the natural history of this little worm has become of 
national and political importance, and has received the attention of 
some of the best scientific observers of the day. 
been laid under suspicion, and aea et a little nematoid worm 
which infests the beet-root, but this, too, was found to be zoölogically 
distinct. Statements have also been made that beef is not free from 
trichine, but there is no just ground for such reports, and the same 
may be ma of the flesh of birds like ducks, geese, and pigeons, which 
Might receive infection by means of the intestinal discharges 
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