TRICHINAE. 
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about a week, and when brought to me was in an emaciated con¬ 
dition. I therefore concluded that her digestive organs were 
weak, and she had been overfed. 
Treatment : After the administration of several colic balls, 
with no cessation of pain, I gave a full aloetic cathartic, which 
began to act freely upon the bowels the morning of the third day. 
Violent intermittent pains continued all this day, and the mare 
partook of no food. These pains continued until the evening of 
the seventh day, when she died suddenly. 
Post Mortem revealed a large polypus, filling the right side of 
the heart, the neck of it passing into the pulmonary artery. It 
presented the following dimensions : Weight, 13J ounces ; length, 
10 inches; greatest circumference, 10 inches; greatest diameter, 
1J inches. 
[Examination of the specimen kindly sent by Dr. B. Mclnnes 
proved it to be a large heart-clot— Ed.] 
TRICHIN/E, 
A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE STUDENTS OF 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By F. S. Billings, V. M. 
THE 
(Continued from page 554, Vol. V.) 
According to the previously given statistics with reference to 
Trichince among swine in Germany , it is more than sufficiently 
evident that we have the unenviable and damaging reputation of 
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having an infinitely greater percentage of trichin-infected swine 
in this country than they have in Germany. 
The percentage of trichiniasis among the swine examined at 
Restock is, as before stated: 1.3543 for Brunswick; 1.8963 for 
Prussia, according to Eulenberg, 1.2032. While for the United 
States, according to the “ Chicago Academy of Sciences ” we 
have 28 out of 1394 swine trichinous, or 1.50; and according to 
another Chicago report, 8.100, or 12^ per cent.; and according 
to our own examinations, 345 out of 8773, or 1.25. There is 
no doubt that most of the swine which we examined were from 
