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condition of the spleen ; and the staining powers of the blood 
exercised on the tissues with which it comes in contact, &c. 
We have here facts which I have frequently verified. The 
important point, then, which I wish to impress upon the 
Society is that, when a congestion is produced in the large 
intestine of the horse, death occurs rapidly and seems to be 
the result of putrid infection , the germs of putrefaction 
occurring in the alimentary masses, and being capable of 
rapid multiplication in consequence of the afflux of blood.” 
This communication was considered of much importance, 
and its discussion was referred to the next meeting. 
M. Mauri i( On Trichinosis in Spain,” Revue Veterinaire 
de Toulouse , April, 1879. 
Having received some flesh of an animal affected with 
Trichinosis from Barcelona, and considering the considerable 
amount of traffic in pork between Spain and France, M .. 
Mauri deemed it right to make enquiries in the matter of 
prevalence of Trichinae, and in reply to some queries ad¬ 
dressed to the Veterinary Inspector in Barcelona, received the 
following :—“ 16th March, 1879.—In answer to your letter 
of 7th March, 1879, in which you ask me the source of 
Trichinosis in Spain, and how I have been led to suspect its 
presence, I have the honour to inform you that three years 
ago a pharmaceutist of Villar de FArcheveque, a province of 
Valence, invited twenty-eight persons to partake of the flesh 
of a pig which he had just killed. All the party were affected 
by a disease with uniform symptoms, and six died. Research 
showed that this was due to Trichinm, the terrible parasite 
having been found in the flesh of the human beings and of 
the pig. My father, M. Jerome Darder, veterinarian at 
Barcelona, informed of what had occurred at Villar, applied 
to the municipality of Barcelona for the purchase of a micro¬ 
scope for meat inspection, handing at the same time a 
memoire on Trichinosis and Pig Leprosy. This led to no 
sanitary measure. But, that year, the political journals 
having announced the presence of Trichinae at different 
parts of Spanish territory, M. Darder again insisted on the 
necessity of purchase of a microscope. This time the Muni¬ 
cipality of Barcelona was assured of the reality of the 
appearance of Trichinosis in Spain, and requested also, 
through the journals, that the various places in which the 
disease had appeared would supply specimens of suspected 
meat. The municipality of Seville, alone, sent to that of 
Barcelona two flasks containing well-marked parasites. 
A microscope was also procured and I was charged with 
