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tected unless, as in this case, from experiment, while measly pork 
was comparatively of frequent occurrence. He thought this was 
probably owing to the greater transparency of the cysts in veal 
than those in pork and their consequent liability to be overlooked. 
Tape-worm is an entirely preventible disease, and it is a disgrace to 
the community that what could be entirely eradicated by proper 
hygienic measures should be as common as it is. He hoped that 
a systematic inspection, such as could now be carried out at the 
abattoirs, would do much to decrease the number of cases of this 
common malady. In answer to a query by Prof. D. McEachran, 
Prof. Osier stated that there were probably four or five hundred 
cases of tape-worm in the city of Montreal, and that nearly every 
medical man in the city had one or more cases under treatment. 
Mr. McEachran, after complimenting Prof. Osier on the value of 
this scientific investigation, as one bearing very strongly on public, 
health, and apart from the value of such investigations to the 
students of both human and veterinary medicine, he had no doubt 
it would have a beneficial effect in demonstrating the actual 
necessity for proper scientific inspection of the meat supply. We 
have just heard that measly pork is often detected, whereas 
measly veal or beef was rarely discovered. Yet we are informed 
by Prof. Osier that the tape-worms produced from beef measles 
constituted nearly all the cases in the city, proving very clearly 
to his mind that measles in beef was far more common than in 
pork, and the fact of these not being found as often was due tp 
the want of inspection, as explained by Dr. Osier, and, as they 
could see for themselves by the specimens of which both had been 
shown them, while pork measle was opaque, white, and easily 
seen, beef measle was smaller, transparent, except its centre, 
hence not so easily discovered by cursory observation. He de¬ 
scribed the symptoms produced by tape-worm as being dreadful, 
leading to great despondency, mental disturbance and all the 
horrors of the most aggravated dyspepsia. He congratulated the 
members of the Association on being privileged to listen to such 
a scientific paper on such an important subject as that just deliv¬ 
ered in their hearing. After a few T complimentary remarks by 
the Rev. Mr. Killigan and others, a cordial vote of thanks was 
