quite separate conditions, independent of eacli other, in 



As regards meat inspection, everything points to the 

 harmlessness of their presence. During the preparation 

 of the carcase by the slaughterman, the nodules are 

 removed by a little snick with a knife over the stretched 

 tissues when the worm-nest can be shelled out more or less 

 easily. By running his hand firmly over the brisket, the 

 meat-inspector detects any further small nodules hidden 

 from view and removes these. The flesh of many thousands 

 of cattle which have been thus treated, has been eaten by 

 the inhabitants of Australian cities. P^ven were the worm- 

 nests not so removed (and occasionally some do escape 

 notice), no harm would follow. They would first of all 

 probably be noticed either by the butcher or by the house- 

 wife ; even if they escaped these two, and the carver at 

 table, and were eaten unnoticed, no ill-results could be 

 in any way expected. The worm itself is very small ami, 

 in its capsule and surrounded hy lihrons tissue, is only 

 about as large as a kidney-beau. Dr. Gibson's experiment 

 on a young pup, fed on worm-nests for 15 weeks, at first 

 alone and later with bread added, shew, it is true, that the 

 animal at first became rapidly thin and emaciated, but it 

 soon regained its good condition and remained well when 

 the bread was added to the diet consisting only of worm- 

 nodules. This shews that, even if eaten raw, the worms 

 are devoid apparently of toxic effects. Where the worm- 

 nodules are very numerous, as Dr. Gibson points out, the 

 unsightliness of the carcase after their removal may lead 

 to its condemnation. 



If tuberculosis becomes associated with the worm-nodule 

 —a condition which we believe to be rare, if it really ever 

 occurs, but which Barnard and Park consider of great fre- 

 quency—then, of course, the unwholesomeness of the part 



