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but the fire and the odour combining, we were giving way 
to sleep and dreams of Pantagruelin dishes, when a bell 
reminded us of the reality, and the dinner which we found 
in the refectory, as compared with the meat which we had 
just left, made us imagine we had left the substance for the 
shadow. But it was only apparently that we had undergone 
the sufferings of Tantalus, for the following day, while still 
assisting M. Colin in his researches, it was with great 
satisfaction that we saw on the field of the microscope a 
living trichina, which he had obtained from the middle of 
the piece of pork which we had cooked, though this appeared 
from the colour of its surface fit to satisfy the most delicate 
palate without any danger. The superficial parts had been 
cooked, but the heat had spared the parasites of the deeper 
parts. M. Colin also cooked different joints and portions 
of flesh, and he constantly obtained the same results, 
the superficial layers being full of dead Trichinae, but on 
cutting into the less cooked deeper layers he met the hel¬ 
minths in an active condition. A small quantity of this 
meat given to moineaux killed them, and on autopsy free 
Trichinae were found in their intestines. The Archives 
Veterinaire in last March announced the appearance of 
trichinosis in Seine-et-Oise. A Belgian journal recently an¬ 
nounced that at Anvers Trichinae have been found in Ameri¬ 
can pork. The parasite, then, from day to day is invading 
Prance more and more, and attention should be drawn to 
this question, so important in its relations to public hygiene, 
for America exports these meats in large, and therefore dis¬ 
quieting, quantities (H. Benjamin). 
On Leuccemia in Domesticated Animals , by Professor O. 
Siedamgrotzky, from Pfluger’s Vortrage fur Thierarzte .— 
Leucaemia consists in an increase in number of the plastic 
and colourless elements of the blood with a relative diminu¬ 
tion in the number of red globules. It is due to a hyper¬ 
plasia of the blood-making organs, that is to say, of the 
spleen, lymphatic glands, and marrow of bones. Also, ac¬ 
cording as the hyperplasia involves one or other of these 
organs, which are considered as the seat of production of the 
formed elements of the blood, we can distinguish a splenic, 
lymphatic, or myelitic form of the leucaemia. This distinc¬ 
tion is rather based on autopsy than on diagnosis, for it is 
generally difficult to recognise the special form present in 
any case under observation. Comparison of our different 
domesticated animals with regard to their liability to become 
affected with this disorder, has shown that most cases occur 
in the dog and cat; that they are much less numerous in 
