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veal is consumed than fresh pork, and the former is, as a rule, 
less thoroughly cooked, and it may be, as we shall state hereafter, 
that measly veal is not as readily detected as measly pork. The 
prevalence of tape worm is directly dependent upon the efficiency 
with which the meat inspector and the cook perform their duties. 
No infected carcase should escape the one, and a measly steak or 
a fillet of veal from the kitchen of the other, could be eaten with 
impunity. 
Experimental proof of the relation between the beef cysticer- 
cus and T. Saginata was offered by Leuckhart, who, in 1861, suc¬ 
cessfully reared the measles by feeding a calf with ripe segments. 
Hosier, Gurn and Zeuker, in Germany; St. Cyr., in France; 
Eerroncito, in Italy, and Cobbold and Simonds in England, have 
repeated the experiment, in most instances with a positive result. 
So far as could be ascertained, no experiments of the kind have 
been made in America. 
In order to procure specimens of measly veal, and to afford 
the students of the veterinary college an opportunity of studying 
a case of cestode tuberculosis, we fed a calf.with fifty ripe 
segments of a tape worm, believed, from the characters of the 
segments, to be the T. Saginata. 
The animal, a female calf, aged three days, weighing seventy- 
five pounds, was fed, November 22d, at the veterinary college. 
The temperature after the feeding was 103-4°. The animal was 
kept under observation for seven weeks, and a daily record kept 
of the chief symptoms, which briefly summarized, were as follows : 
During the first week no special change was observed; the animal 
fed well and seemed lively. With the exception of the observa¬ 
tion made just after the feeding, the temperature did not rise 
above 102-5°. The pulse range was from 112 to 130. The 
foeces were soft, one day mixed with a quantity of gelatinous 
material. No segments were observed, but microscopical exam¬ 
ination on the third day after feeding determined the presence of 
numerous ova. In the second week the animal did not appear so 
well. On December 2d the temperature rose to 104-6°. The 
pulse kept over 100, of moderate volume. On one day the ani¬ 
mal seemed stiff in the limbs and disinclined to move about, but 
