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F. S. BILLINGS. 
Glanders, where it attacks only a few persons at a time, gen¬ 
erally kills its victims, so that it rarely has much of an opportun¬ 
ity to spread or to degenerate—which requires time—into a dis¬ 
ease like the one which resulted from the epidemic. 
{To be continued ). 
TRICHIN/E, 
A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE STUDENTS OF THE 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By F. S. Billings, V. M. 
(Continued from page 231.) 
From the time of the above-mentioned case of Zeukers, nu¬ 
merous others have come to pass in different countries, and epi¬ 
demics of the disease have caused a shudder of horror among: 
reffecting men and women. Such epidemics have been reported 
at Corback, 1861; Plauen, 1861-2; Calbe, 1862; Ilettstadt, 
1862-3; Hanover, 1864; Dresden, 1864, and other places in 
Germany. The most remarkable outbreak, however, is that of 
Hedersleben, a place of some 2,000 inhabitants, of whom 337 
were sick at one time, and 101 died of trichiniasis. Cobbold 
communicated to Heller that the first authentic case of the di¬ 
sease’s introduction in man came to pass in England in 1871. 
Several most interesting examples of the discovery of the par¬ 
ishes in the muscles of living persons have been recorded in the 
annals of medicine. 
We have already alluded to the case of a woman suffering 
from cancer of the breast at Alton a, trichinae being found in 
portions of it, on its removal. 
The case of a stout and apparently healthy man entering a 
hospital at Calcutta with a tumor on his neck, and the subsequent 
discovery of trichinae in the tissues of the same, is reported in the 
Boston Med. and Sure/. Journal , Vol. LXXI1, p. 167. 
Laugenbeck, of Berlin, also removed a tumor in which the 
parishes were discovered. 
Forty /persons became diseased at one time , at Bremen , from 
eating Americanpork. 
