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13. A sausage with garlic, 10 centimeters long (4 inches), 
and weighing 120 grm., 17 minutes after being put in boiling 
water, had internal heat of 65° C. 
14. A piece of pig's lungs, after an hour and a quarter’s 
boiling, notwithstanding the rapid cooking of so spongy a 
part, gave a heat of 86° C. 
All these experiments show that the usual way of cooking, 
done diligently and carefully, is sufficient to raise the tem¬ 
perature beyond what is necessary to kill, not only the Cysti- 
cercus of the Taenia capable of lodging in the human body, 
as Cobbold has said, but also the Trichinae, which, according 
to my experiments, would not resist the general law of heat, 
as I have shown for the majority of helminths parasitic in 
man and in animals. 
Note .—The above interesting and highly instructive com¬ 
munication contains the substance of researches already 
published in the Annali della R. Accad. d’Agricoltura di 
Torino .— Eds. 
SEROUS ABSCESSES IN THE DOG. 
By Harold Leeney, M.R.C.Y.S., Brighton. 
The very frequent occurrence of serous abscesses in the 
dog, and the scanty amount of literature on the subject, 
induce me to make a few remarks upon cases that have 
come within my own knowledge and occurred in my own 
practice. 
The majority of these cases occur in fighting-dogs, and are, 
in my opinion, the direct result of injuries received in combat 
or occasionally otherwise, proof of which statement may, I 
think, be found in the fact that they invariably occur in those 
parts where dogs are accustomed to seize one another, i . e. the 
neck, ears, and brisket. Many of those which I have met with 
have included all the parts mentioned, and, as a rule, those 
occupying the largest space and containing the greatest 
amount of fluid have proved the most rapidly amenable to 
treatment. The owner of the dog has almost always a 
battle to describe in which his dog was not victorious, and as 
the animal seemed all right lor nearly a week afterwaids, so 
that he (the owner) thinks that it cannot be due to the fight, 
but that it was only right to mention it. 
I will not describe more than three cases, foi fear of ties- 
passing too much on your space, and as these aie xecent ones, 
