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Chicago, may bo cited. They examined the pork in the various 
packing-houses of that city, and found trichinae present in eight 
per cent, of the specimens, the parasites averaging about 20,000 
to the cubic inch. These gentlemen believe that infection of hu¬ 
man beings with trichinae is very much more common and less in¬ 
jurious than is commonly supposed. They have made the inter¬ 
esting discovery that a small portion of sulphurous acid dissolved 
in the brine in which hams are pickled will kill all the trichinae. 
Sudden Death at the Beginning of Chloroform Inhala¬ 
tion. —Dr. Janovitsch Tschainsky relates in Medizinski Westnik , 
Nos. 12 and 13, 1883, the case of a peasant, twenty-eight years 
of age, upon whom he was about to operate for the removal of a 
lupoid growth from the under lip. Hardly had the patient taken 
two whiffs of chloroform when respiration ceased and he was 
dead. The necropsy revealed fatty degeneration of the wall of 
the right ventricle, while that of the left appeared to be normal. 
The reporter attributed the death to psychic causes, the dread of 
the operation. He relates several similar cases, among which 
was that of Cazenave. In this case the surgeon desired to oper¬ 
ate upon a very nervous patient without chloroform, and in order 
to deceive him held a bag of pure air before his mouth ; he breathed 
four times and died. Desault, being about to cut for stone, 
drew his finger-nail across the perineum to indicate the line of 
incision. The patient in his alarm gave a shriek and died. 
Infection through Milk. —About three-quarters of a mile 
from Bacton Manor in Herefordshire, is a wretched little building 
known among the country-folk as “ Ther Mill.” The people of 
this mill keep two cows, and by them the Union is supplied with 
milk. A short time ago one of the mill children took scarlet fe¬ 
ver, and soon afterwards it spread to the Union, which is at some 
distance from the “Mill,” seven out of the thirty children inmates 
being almost simultaneously attacked. The infection has since 
been traced to the milk-supply. Milk has been so often shown to 
be a vehicle of zymotic infection, that it is a wonder how any one 
can yet be ignorant of the fact. Yet the mischief here was due 
to ignorance on the part of the miller, for it seems that he made 
no secret of the existence of the fever in his house, and he daily 
took the milk to the Union in person .—London Herald of Health. 
