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meat inspection. Shortly afterwards, 1st January, 1879, I 
reported the first case of Trichinosis, and the second on the 
14th of the same month. The pigs came from the provinces 
of the North of Spain. At the invitation of the munici¬ 
pality, a meeting of leading human and veterinary sur¬ 
geons of Barcelona was held to confirm the existence of 
the parasite and to inform the public of it. Now micro¬ 
scopic examination is practised in almost all the slaughter 
houses of Catalonia and of the principal towns in Spain. 
In order to lessen the panic which spread through Barce¬ 
lona and almost completely prevented the consumption of 
pork, a meeting of the Society of Hygiene was called, which 
prepared and had printed a small work describing the exact 
nature of the disease and measures for its prevention. Also 
infested meat was sent for examination to neighbouring 
localities and the sanitary inspectors have been called to 
Barcelona to study the parasite practically, and to practise the 
microscopic examination of meat. Finally, to remove all 
doubts on the subject of the existence of this terrible disease, 
experiments have been made by feeding various animals (dogs, 
cats, rabbits, &c.), on the trichinosed flesh ; in all these ex¬ 
periments the exactitude of the above-mentioned facts was 
proved. Antoine Darder.” 
M. Mauri urges in support of the urgent necessity of a 
government inquiry into Trichinosis, that an epidemic of 
the disease has already been reported in the Department 
of Seine-et-Oise. M. Laboulbene, physician at the Hopital 
de la Charite, has presented to the Academy of Medicine, 
a report u On the first epidemic of Trichinosis observed in 
France.” It showed that Dr. Godivet, of Seine-et-Oise, 
has just observed serious symptoms in a great number of 
persons who had eaten some meat from one pig. Of them, 
twenty in number, sixteen were affected, proving the meat 
to be the cause, though it looked good, and seemed nor¬ 
mal to the naked eye or even when examined with a lens, 
but when examined with the microscope it showed many 
Trichinse. In the interests of public hygiene and com¬ 
merce and agriculture it is important that this outbreak 
should be traced to the origin. Hitherto this disease has 
been scarcely noticed except in Germany, the only record 
of its appearance in Belgium, in 1866, proved erroneous. 
“ In France,” says M. Bouley, in a report to the Con¬ 
sulting Committee of Public Health, “ though physicians 
have been especially forewarned, no case of Trichinosis has 
ever been met with.” We learn that in Italv and Portugal 
importation of pigs and pork from the United States of 
