CYST-AFFECTED MEAT. 
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ff (3) That, as a rule, a chylous condition of the urine is 
only one of the symptoms of this state of the circulation, 
although it appears to be the most characteristic symptom 
which we are at present aware of. 
“(4) And, lastly, that some of the hitherto inexplicable 
phenomena with which certain tropical diseases are charac¬ 
terised may eventually be traced to the same or to an allied 
condition; hence it becomes imperative to subject the blood 
of patients suffering from obscure diseases, in tropical 
countries at all events, to thorough microscopic examination.^ 
—. Lancet . 
CYST-AFFECTED MEAT. 
Serious apprehensions arose a year or two ago in regard 
to the feeding of the European troops in India. The cattle 
slaughtered in various parts of that country, and notably in 
the Punjab, w r ere very commonly found infected with cysts. 
The meat that should have been supplied to the troops was 
often condemned as unfit for food; indeed, the extent to 
which this was carried gave rise to no little embarrassment 
to the Government. This led to an official investigation, and 
the opinion of Dr. Muir, C.B., was eventually taken and 
acted upon in the matter. He pointed out that if attention 
were given to the thorough cooking of the meat in question, 
no harm would accrue to the troops from its consumption. 
The subject has since been taken up by Assistant-Surgeon T. 
R. Lewis, M.B., attached on special duty to the sanitary 
commissioner with the Government of India. A copy of his 
report on “the bladder-worms found in beef and pork ” is 
before us. The report* details the observations and experi¬ 
ments made by him, and is illustrated by numerous drawings 
and micro-photographs. En passant we may remark that 
these representations of minute structure by microscopic 
photography form, it is believed, the first attempt of the kind 
in India. In considering the most practical methods of re¬ 
ducing the risk of mischief arising from the consumption of 
the meat of measled animals, Mr. Lewis mentions that pigs 
under a year old cannot be infected, nor can grown-up cattle, 
and he alludes to the practical observation of Dr. Cobbold, 
that when a calf has been infected, and slaughtered some 
nine or ten months subsequently, the cysts will be found to 
have become degenerated, gritty calcareous spots alone re¬ 
maining to mark the situation formerly occupied by the 
living parasite. In his experiments on the temperature of 
