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*At Lissa, live members of one family became infected from 
eating of a ham which, it was said, had been pickled, then smoked, 
and boiled for two hours. f A poor woman became infected 
from the consumption of dog-meat,* which her necessities had 
driven her to for nourishment. J At Lindau, a suburb of Han¬ 
over, four hundred persons were infected at one time, and twen¬ 
ty-one died from eating trichinous pork. § Dr* Kiefer, of De¬ 
troit, reports a fatal case of this disease, the patient dying at the 
end of the fourth week. He also refers to other cases reported 
by Drs. Kronpein, of Hew York State, and Duigler, of Ohio. 
Dr. Herr, Dubuque, Iowa, reports fifteen cases, of which live 
died from eating raw smoked ham made into sausages. 
Several cases are reported in the American Journal of Medi¬ 
cal Science, as having taken place in Philadelphia. In January, 
1881, a case occurred at Blackwells Island, N. Y., which caused 
considerable excitement. Two cases were reported in Chicago 
during the same month, and two at Milwaukee, Wis., in Decem¬ 
ber, both of whom died. Dr. Germer, Health Officer, Erie, Pa., 
writes the Treasurer Board of Health, under date of January 27, 
1881, that the preceding Christmas he discovered seven cases in 
a place eight miles distant, which were caused by eating the ham 
of a home-fed and cured hog. 
The most interesting American case, to my mind, is one that 
occurred at Brooklyn, H. Y., in September, 1879. Seven of a 
family were affected and two died. This case came to trial at 
Brooklyn, the family sueing a packing house of which they had 
bought half a ham two days previous to the outbreak of their 
sickness. As they had been continually in the habit of eating 
raw ham and sausages, and as they had purchased the bam only 
two days previous to the first symptoms of the disease, it is self~ 
evident the plaintiffs did not have any case, especially as no 
microscopic examination of the ham had taken place. Further, 
it does not seem how retailers of pork can be held responsible 
for its containing trichinse in a country where neither the law or 
the community recognize the existence of any such disease of 
* t t § Boston Med. and Snrg. Journal, Yol. XC, p. 491; Yol. XCI, p. 471; 
iUd, p. 627; Yol. LXXIY, p. 208. 
