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of recent epidemics would have been recognised, but for that 
discovery. Not a doubt exists in my mind that virulent and 
even endemic forms of the same trichinal disorder occurred 
from time to time during former years ; and yet no one so 
much as hinted at their parasitic origin. Persons have even 
recalled past outbreaks, which were at the time attributable to 
some other disease ; and at least one individual allowed him- 
self to be harpooned in the interests of science. The extrac- 
tion in this way of calcified trichina capsules proved that he 
had suffered from trichiniasis some ten years previously. It 
may further be safely urged that but for these trichina reve- 
lations neither the Lords of Her Majesty’s Council nor their 
energetic Medical Officer would ever have thought of demand- 
ing a 6 Report on the Parasitic Diseases of Quadrupeds used 
as Food/ If that Report, written in 1864 and published in 
1865, cannot be said to meet all the requirements of the case 
before us, it constitutes, nevertheless, a most valuable contri- 
bution to our knowledge of the trichina disease ; and almost as 
much may be said of Dr. Thudichum’s shorter paper, “ On the 
Diseases of Meat as affecting the Health of the People,” 
subsequently communicated to the Society of Arts. 
( To be continued .) 
Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
Annates de Medecine Veterinaire de Bruxelles , January, 
February and March, 1871. 
HORSE TYPHUS. — AN EQUINE ENZOOTY AT BRUGES. 
This is a history and resume of an outbreak of a serious 
character among horses in the neighbourhood of Bruges, 
drawn up from various reports, by Professor J. B. Derache, 
of the Veterinary School at Cureghem. 
The malady occurred towards the end of 1867, and con- 
tinued into January of the following year; and its general 
and fatal tendencies caused so much alarm that the governor 
of the province requested the assistance of the Government 
veterinary surgeons in investigating its nature, symptoms, 
and the causes which gave rise to it. 
The reports furnished displayed a complete divergence of 
