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mony. He is fond of coarse brown sugar. He does not remember ever 
having eaten meats badly cooked, and has not suffered from other forms of 
entozoa, except ascarides, which troubled him greatly in early life.” 
In another similar case, recorded by J. J. Evans, Esq., of 
St. Neot’s, the origin of these parasites appears to have been 
pigs 5 brains. 
“ e In regard to diet,’ Mr. Evans further writes, ‘ I have ascertained from 
my patient, that, about seventeen years since, she, as well as the whole of 
the family, were much in the habit of eating pig’s brains in large quantity, 
as well as occasionally pig’s fry ; but that, since her first symptoms of dis- 
order, now ten years ago, she has lived principally on mutton. The state- 
ment she made was, that her father, being a waggoner, was in the habit of 
bringing home large pig’s heads. Her mother usually put the brains into 
a pudding with seasoning, to constitute a meal for the family, and they in- 
dividually ate heartily of it.’ ” 
We have lately been officially consulted by the Board of 
Admiralty, respecting “ measly 55 pork, an affection depend- 
ing also on the presence of hydatids embedded in the 
muscles, & c. — the hydatis celluloses , — and we had no hesi- 
tation in stating our conviction, that such meat was unfit for 
food. 
The record of these cases on which we have commented, 
is closed with the following sensible remarks : 
“ However much we may be in the dark as yet on many points, there can 
be no doubt that great advances have been made, and that we are at last 
on the true track towards discovering the origin of the entozoa ; and as 
book opens book, and one science betrays the secrets of another, so it is to 
to be hoped that this inquiry may lead us iuto spheres of pathological 
observation, which, at the present moment, may seem removed altogether 
from this special investigation. 
“ Not many years ago, the whole question of the entozoa was a sealed and 
mystic volume, which, when broken into, was full only of hard sayings and 
speculations, partaking more of the character of old alchemy than of rational 
thought. Perhaps, indeed, no theory so entrapped the world for a time as 
that of spontaneous or equivocal generation, the utter and absurd fallacy of 
which is now so manifest. As time goes on, and experiments advance, it is 
not too much to suppose that we may consider the pathology of the entozoa 
in the light of a proved scientific problem, wrought out by the most rigid 
rules of the inductive philosophy.” 
