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without any specific cause and without any active inflammation. 
It tins IS true, the term is misleading. In fact, the term “ cold 
abscesses ” is now almost obsolete among modern patholoo-ists. I 
It formerly was used to denote an old tubercular abscess,"^like 
a psoas abscess, but since so much has been learned in the past 
few years about tuberculosis, it seems that the term- no lono-er 
nils a place in scientific phraseology. ^ 
The disease affecting the lymphatic glands of sheep (some¬ 
times called lung disease) and, as the author has stated re¬ 
sembles tuberculosis, is not only confined to those raised in ^ 
Utah and Ccfforado, but is found in Arizona, New Mexico and 
California. The worst affected flock I ever saw came from 
California. Neither is it confined to the lymphatics of the 
thorax It may involve any glands of the body, but more par¬ 
ticularly after the mediastinal, the sub-lumbar, prescapular and 
inguinal. ^ 
Trichinse in small numbers in pork certainly do not alter 
t le character of the flesh, but where they are present in countless 
multitudes the severe myositis induced by their presence and mi¬ 
grations cause 111 many instances marked structural alterations 
I he muscle fibres are in some cases hypertrophied, due princi¬ 
pally to the increase in the inelastic fibrous sheaths which en¬ 
shroud the sarcous elements. Some of the fibres seem to have 
lost their vitality and are apparently dead ; others have under- i 
gone^ egeneration (Zenker’s Disease). In some carcasses the I 
trichinae are nearly all dead, and then begins a steady process of j 
calcareous infiltration or degeneration of the organisms and ! 
cysts, and continuing pervades the adjacent structures till there i 
IS so much of this calcareous matter (principally carbonates and ! 
p losphates of calcium) that the flesh seems actually gritty on i 
being treated for microscopical examination. I maintain that ! 
such flesh is unwholesome and should be condemned. I am I 
not saying that all trichinosed meat should be condemned nor i 
any large per cent, of it, as the cooked worms are probably as¬ 
similated, but 111 such conditions as described above, I am thor- ^ 
oughly convinced. • | 
A great deal of our inspection is based on purely senti- | 
mental principles and our sentiments are capable of cultivation I 
or degradation. 
^ Some people may eat rats, mice, snakes and ants without ‘ 
vm ating their dietary scruples. These people are not the i 
highest in the scale of civilization, yet when we look about us i 
we find some so-called enlightened who are fond of hot chit- j 
