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p. 133), collates the results of many experiments, and considers 
that there are no authentic cases of tuberculosis arising from the 
ingestion of diseased beef, and that it is very rare that we can 
experimentally transmit the disease even by inoculating diseased 
meat into Guinea-pigs, the most susceptible of all animals to the 
infection. It is proper to authorize the consumption of all 
tuberculous meat after it has been completely sterilized by heat, 
says Leclainche .—Medical Record. 
METHOD OF DESTROYING CARCASSES OF DISEASED ANIMALS AT 
HAMBURG. 
This usually difficult task is said to become an easy, success¬ 
ful process by the use of a destructor made at Augsburg by 
Riedinger. It consists or a large iron cylinder or drum, hori¬ 
zontally placed, and revolved by a two-horse-power engine. 
This cylinder is approached from above, and there is an opening 
in the side through which the matter to be destroyed is intro¬ 
duced. At each operation three tons can be treated. Plates are 
arranged inside to throw the mass toward the center. At the 
beginning steam under pressure is introduced for two hours and 
a half into the inside of the cylinder. Then, at a pressure of 
two or three atmospheres, steam is sent into the jacket surround¬ 
ing the cylinder. By a clever arrangement the fat is extracted, 
the gases are drawn into the chimney and rendered inoffensive, 
and the waste matter is converted rapidly into valuable manure 
in the form of a brown powder. Such destruction of carcasses 
cost the city much money formerly, but this apparatus yields a 
profit of $2,500 dollars per year, not allowing for cost and 
saldry. New machines are being constructed with notable im¬ 
provements. 
Condemned meat is sprinkled with petroleum (or crude 
carbolic acid) after being incised. These permeate the mass 
and preclude the possibility of its being accepted as food.—• 
Ibid. 
