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pleura can be readily stripped from the chest walls, and this is 
taken advantage of by unscupulous and dishonest butchers, who 
will remove this thickened and infiltrated tissue, scrape the ribs, 
and sell the meat as sound. While at the same time it is not 
probable, or i may say, even possible, that this disease can be 
produced in man ; yet it is nevertheless true that such fevered 
flesh cannot be, and is not, wholesome and nutritious food, and 
such should be strictly prohibited by the legal authorities; as, on 
account of its probable cheapness, this food would be consumed by 
our most exposed, hardest worked and worst fed classes, whose con¬ 
stitution, physical condition and hygenic surroundings do not fit 
them to withstand the ravages of disease, and hence, such im¬ 
proper food would be more liable to produce in them conditions 
not at all conducive to perfect health. 
{To be continued .) 
• INFLAMMATION. 
By E. Mink, V.S. 
(Continued from page 111 .) 
1 now proceed to consider the alteration in the tissues of the 
inflamed parts. The first question that presents itself is, what, 
effect does the exuded material have on the tissues which contain 
it ? The answer to this question depends somewhat upon the 
character of the tissue affected, such as the structure and function 
of parts, whether the tissues are vascular or lion-vascular. The 
vascular tissues include bone and the varieties of connective 
tissue, the non-vaseular, cartilage, tendon, and the cornea. 
Pathologists are substantially agreed on one thing, and that 
is, that although there may be great difference in the structure 
and function of the parts affected, all are of such a nature as to 
indicate increased activity of cell life under the stimulating influ¬ 
ence of the effused material. The extent of effusion or exudation 
will vary with the kind of tissue inflamed. “ In non-vascular tis¬ 
sues, as tendon, cartilage or cornea, exudation can occur only 
from neighboring vessels, hence effusion is found outside of the 
parts.” In all dense organs, as liver, kidney and testicles, a large 
