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in Atlantic transit. In confirmation of this supposition we 
have the experiments of Frankie and also of this establish¬ 
ment.* 
The former states expresslyf that he used hams in his 
trials that had previously been pickled ; notwithstanding- the 
minute strength of the brine the trichinae were killed by it. 
At the institution we applied meat that was so intensely 
salted as to cause death from sheer thirsty even after we had 
soaked it in water a short time before feeding it. 
In a later trial we used the same meat, but permitted it to 
remain a period of several hours in water, previous to admin¬ 
istering. This gave positive results. Up to the present time 
we cannot assert the reason for the immunity possessed by 
the trichinas in the latter instance in which, moreover, the 
brine was unusually strong .—Berliner Tin. Woch. 
PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA IN THE HORSE. 
We were lately called by the owner to attend a young 
horse which had for six weeks eaten indifferently, and which 
was gradually losing flesh. The slightest work was sufficient 
cause for a profuse perspiration and weakness which threat¬ 
ened to precipitate the animal to the ground. 
Status Praesens .—Emaciated dark brown gelding of medi¬ 
um weight, five years old ; the coat without lustre and dry ; 
patient exhausted and standing with drooped head in the 
stall; countenance languid and immobile; visible mucous 
membranes, anaemia, and almost white in tint ;< the corporeal 
surface of the same degree of heat, rectal temperature 102° 
F.; pulse unusually weak, wiry and beating 72 per minute ; 
heart tones indistinct, only one being appreciable ; contrac¬ 
tion, however, strong; respiration labored, and occurring 
twenty times in the minute ; percussion of the thoracic walls, 
and auscultation of the lungs, indicated nothing abnormal; as 
well could we observe no lesion of the digestive tract; urine 
♦The Patho-Biological Institute of Hanover Yet. Univ. 
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