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used for washing the viscera of two patients who had died of 
typhoid fever, and on whom a post mortem was made, was soon 
aftei filled with water for the calves to drink, and it seems prob¬ 
able that some blood which remained on the outside was licked up 
by the calf, or else it was transfered to the stockings of the cow 
which the animal was in the habit of licking. ' After an in¬ 
cubative period of exactly ten days the calf was taken ill and it 
was killed four days later. The pathological changes were exactly 
the same as in the other case, and microscopically the calf’s intes¬ 
tines,in both cases were undistinguishable from a human intestine 
in the same stage of typhoid fever.” 
“ There can be no doubt,” says Bollinger, (Ibid., p. 300) “ but 
that glanders may be produced by eating the meat of glandered 
horses, which, according to my experience, owing to the imperfect 
iemulations for the inspection of meat, is not unfrequently used 
as food. The common process for preparing the meat for the 
table would naturally tend, it is true, to destroy its virulence ; but 
meanwhile the risk of infection is incurred by the manipulation 
involved in preparing it.” 
(To be continued). 
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TRICHIN/E, 
A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE STUDENTS OF THE 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By F. S. Billings, V. M. 
{Continued from page 114.) 
TRICHINA IN MAN. 
The honor of this important discovery belongs to Dr. Zentier, 
of Diesden, Germany. The disease was discovered in a servant 
gill admitted to the city hospital at Dresden as a typhus patient. 
She died, and her muscles were found completely infested with 
trichinae. At the same time that she became ill other persons of 
the same family and a butcher who had slaughtered a pig for 
them were taken sick also; similar phenomena, but in a modi¬ 
fied form, attending them to those manifested by the diseased 
