SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 157 
journal, under the heading “ Scientific Chat—Trichinosis 
in Italy and America,” we learn some of the more recent 
doings of the Turin professor. The Abeille Medicate , 
26th May, 1879, contained the translation of an article 
from the Boston Journal of Medicine and Surgery in 
which were related some experiments made at Chicago on 
trichinosis. The results are so remarkable that, if the names 
of medical professors had not been given in connection, we 
might well ask whether all the inquiry is serious. Thus, 
they conclude that men can periodically consume Trichinae 
without inconvenience. This explains why, without com¬ 
punction, the new world exports into Europe and Asia its 
poisonous products, which in our latitude have by no means 
the innocent characters which they have on the other side 
of the Atlantic Ocean. To prove his statements. Dr. Bel- 
field, more courageous even than our undoubtedly bold col¬ 
league M. Decroix, consumed a dozen living Trichinae, which 
three weeks after ingestion had not interfered with his 
health. It is right to add that the journal does not give 
the end of the trial; perhaps the Trichinae began to manifest 
their effects when the bearer began to congratulate himself 
on having become accustomed to their presence. The 
Americans find it especially interesting to them, and this 
appears to be substantiated, that a very small quantity of 
sulphuric acid, mixed in the vessel in which the pork is 
kept, suffices to destroy the helminths without injuring the 
meat. The Yankees are so surprising that we must ask 
ourselves whether they imagine that because one of them 
has been pleased to infest himself with Trichinae, and has 
seemed to suffer no inconvenience, it will make us forget 
what has occurred in Germany, and especially at Dresden 
and Madgebourg. M. Edward Perroncito, Professor of 
Veterinary Medicine at the Turin University, has been for 
several years occupied specially with this question. His 
first researches date from 1876, when he observed trichinosis 
in a dog under circumstances so singular as to deserve 
mention. During the session of the Medical Congress 
various amputations had been made on a dog by means of 
the galvanic wire, among others of the tongue and of the 
muscles of the thigh. M. Perroncito kept the subject alive 
for six days, and then destroyed it. He then remarked on 
the cut surfaces whitish points, which under the microscope 
proved to be encysted Trichinae. In the month of January 
last a large number of hams was received in Turin from 
Cincinnati. M. Perroncito examined and found in them 
very numerous Trichinae. The corporation was informed of 
