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i. e. revulsives, rest, &c., were adopted. Twenty days afterwards 
the cure was complete, and the animal was put to slow work. 
The author not having had an opportunity of examining 
post-mortem a case of rupture of the ilio-rotulian (rectus muscle), 
to make quite sure that he had not made a mistake in the 
diagnosis, the more so as Professor Delwart, in a memoir on 
the laceration of the muscle in question, considers that the 
prognosis is always unfavorable, decided on removing all 
doubts by making a section of the muscle; this operation he 
performed on a mule. By means of a long straight bistoury 
he made a subcutaneous division of the ilio-rotulian muscle, 
when suddenly all the phenomena above described were pro- 
duced, though with less intensity, leaving no doubt of the 
correctness of the diagnosis of the above cases. 
MICROSCOPIC INSPECTION OF MEAT IN PRUSSIA IN 1867. 
From the reports of the district government-veterinary sur- 
geons, collected by Professor Muller, of the veterinary school 
of Berlin, it appears that from the 1st of April, 1867, to the 
1st of April, 1868, cases of trichinosis had been common, 
not only in certain new districts, but also in those in which 
it had formerly prevailed, as, for instance, in that of Stettin, 
&c. The frequent appearance of trichinae in the Duchy of 
Brunswick and in the Government of Meigelburg, shows that 
the inspection is of great importance, and that in many cases 
it has prevented the malady caused by the parasites extending 
to the human subject. In the Government district of Gum- 
binnen seven pigs were found infected with trichinae, and 
though part of one, killed by a butcher in Tilsit, had been 
disposed of, no cases occurred in the human subject. How- 
ever, one pig, fattened by a restorator of Gumbinnen, killed 
in January, 1868, was the cause of a great number of cases 
in persons who had eaten of the flesh ; but as all of them 
recovered, the restorator was only fined in the mitigated 
penalty of five dollars. The pigstye in the latter case was 
only separated by a wall from another sty, in which two pigs 
had been more than a twelvemonth before affected with tri- 
chinae ; it was, therefore, supposed that the parasites had been 
carried by a number of rats which infested the stye. The 
infection of eight persons was consequent on the eating of 
raw meat in the making of sausages, or eating of them with- 
out being sufficiently cooked. The remainder of the sausages 
and the meat contained a great number of trichinae enclosed 
in their capsules, 
