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wise brought in contact with them. The post mortem results, 
as shown in several instances, permit of no doubt as to the 
disease having been typhoid fever. We now come to the prob¬ 
able source of infection of those persons who took part in the 
festival at Klotue. The greater part of the meat eaten on this 
occasion was supplied by the village inn-keeper, who was also the 
village butcher, and all of it (veal, pork and beef) had been pro¬ 
nounced by a professional inspector perfectly healthy, with the 
exception of forty-three pounds of veal, which were sent from a 
butcher at Seebach two days before the festival, and had not been 
examined by the inspector. The calf from which it came 
belonged to a peasant. It was only a few days old, and was prob¬ 
ably killed because it was certain to die very speedily from ill¬ 
ness. It would not suck ; it lay in the straw, cried when touched, 
as if in pain, and at the same time kept lowing loudly. The evi¬ 
dence that the flesh of the calf caused the epidemic, is very strong. 
Not only the partakers in the feast who ate the particular veal, 
stewed with the other healthy meat, were attacked, but families 
who took no part in the feast, and in which the children had had 
meat and sausages given them by persons who could not consume 
what was served out to them, suffered. The lungs of the above 
unfortunate calf were sold to a lady at Seebach, and the brain to 
the clergyman of the parish. Three persons who dined off the 
lungs made into a stew were taken ill exactly like the members of 
the choir, and the clergymen’s family were similarly affected. The 
evidence that the epidemic was caused by eating this particular 
calf’s flesh, is strengthened greatly by the discovery a little later 
by Dr. Walder, that two calves had been infected by typhoid 
fever germs, their probable sources being the evacuation of a 
man,suffering from enteric fever,who attended to the cattle during 
the early part of his sickness, and who unquestionably passed 
some diarrhoetic stools in the neighborhood of the animals. 
A post mortem of one of these animals showed intense swell¬ 
ing of the Peyer’s patches throughout the whole of the small 
intestines, but especially in the lower part, with swelling of the 
retro-peritoneal and mesenteric glands. The spleen was enlarged. 
Another case in which a calf was almost certainly infected by a 
human beinor. occurred later on. Here a bucket which had been 
