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TRICHINA IN SYRIA AND EGYPT. 
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A circular from the Minister of the Interior in Italy, dated 
miary, 1879, gives official information of the existence of 
trichi a in swine from Syria and Egypt. A decree of the same 
day prevents the importation into Italy of living pigs or of their 
carcasses.— Rev§ie <P Hygiene. 
STATISTICS OF HYDROPHOBIA IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SEINE, 
FRANCE. 
From the extract of Mr. C. Lehlanc to the department of po¬ 
lice in Paris, the number of cases of hydrophobia for 1878 was 
no less than 511, viz : 440 dogs, 68 sluts and 3 cats. 
Amongst those 390 had the raving type, and 121 had the dumb 
rabies; 103 persons were bitten, viz: 67 adults and 36 children; 
the mortality being 30, or 1 out of about 3. 454 dogs and 24 
cats were bitten. Of the dogs, 342 were killed, 112 were lost. 
All the cats were destroyed .—Revue <T Hygiene. 
VIRUS OF HORSE POX FOR VACCINATION. 
Dr. Pingaud has inoculated seven soldiers with the liquid of 
the vesicles developed upon the buccal mucous membrane of horses 
suffering with horse pox. Upon six of them the vaccination took 
well. Out of these virus was used to inoculate sixty-four men. 
On those the result proved magnificent in 40 men (64 per 100), 
the result was positive. Cows were then inoculated with the virus 
of the horse pox, and were used afterwards for general vaccination 
of the whole garrison. But what proves that the equine virus be¬ 
comes weak in passing by the cow, is that the liquid of this cow 
pox inoculated gave only a success lower than in the former op¬ 
eration. Twenty-eight per one hundred instead of sixty-four 
proved successful .—Bulletin Academie de Medecine. 
