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TrichinOsis-ResuIt of Ihe French In.
VestigatiOn as 10 the Existence and
of the Pork Worm.

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Propagation of In Pork Worm.
From GaliguanIs Messenger, April 81
Professor Delpech, of the Paris Faculty
of Medicine, and Professor Reynal, of the
Imperial Veterinary School at ALERT,
who were charged with a mission to study
the above named diseases in Germany,
both in human beings and animals, have
presented TO the Minister of Agriculture,
Commerce and Public Works a report of
the result of their investigations at Huy,
Belgiuml Hanover, Magdeburg, Berlin,
| Halle, Dresden Leipsic and Mayeuce. To
render their investigations more complete,
they solicited and obtained the co opera
zion of the most eminent German physi-
clans who have made the disease in ques-
ton their especial study. The chief prac-
teal facts ascertained are as follows; The
epidemic, trichinosis, lately prevalent in
Germany, has almost entirely disappeared.
The mortality was everywhere slight, ex-
cept at Hadersleben. At Zwickau, Sell
tenderf and SommerAeld there were
lightweight patients, not n Of whom
died. In every case the disease was
caused by esting imperfectly-cooked pork
containing trichines, q case Of rather fire.
quent occurrence in Germany. In Han
over, in twenty-one months, out of TWEEN
ty-ive thousand pigs, eleven were found
full Of trichines, sixteen out of fourteen
thousand in Brunswick, and four of seven
hundred in Blakenburg. The animals
while living show no sign of their pres
ence, nor can they be detected in the
meat with an ordinary magnifying glass,
but q powerful microscope renders them
distinctly visible. The utility of micro
scopic inspection of pigs flesh by compe
tent observers IS so evident that many of
the German governments have rendered
it obligatory, and NM. Delpech and
Revival would not hesitate to recommend
it, in any country contaminated with tri-
tricbinosis, but they think it unnecessary
in France, where no case Of the disease
has yet been noticed. In Germany the
hospitals receive many patients suffering
from the.affection. During last year there
were thirteen at Madgeburg, of whom
| only one died. Post norton examinations
have also shown, among persons who died
from other diseases, numerous cases of old
trichinosis cured by the encystment of
the parasites. The proportion of these at
Lsipsic has been about six per hundred.
In places where the complaint prevails
the rats which infest slaughter houses are
found to have it, as proved by Leisering
at Dresden Adam ct Augsburg, and Roll
at Vienna.
Since their return, NM. Delpech and
Reynal have examined many of these ami
mails, az well as pigs without finding a
trace of trichines. Consequently, there is
no reason in France for any person to
refrain from eating hogs flesh, especially
when so thoroughly cooked as is usual
among the French. In Germany, on the
contrary, many Of the peasantry eat it al
most raw or only smoked. The most
timid may safely eat the heart, kidneys,
brain and fat Of pigs, as those parts
never contain trichines. NM. Delpech
and Revival assert, as an undoubted fact,
that a temperature of IS degrees, G. (l57
| Fah.) Is sufficient to kill trichines. Meat
thoroughly sailed is perfectly safe. Smoke
dried sausages, which have been kept a
long time, are considered free from danger,
but the wisest plan is to give them a good
boiling. The authors Of the report at
tribute the spread of the disease among
pigs TO the fact that they are foul feeders
and will eat any ofal, such as the dead
bodies of of rats and other animals, which
are now known to be liable to trichinosis.
Great care ought, therefore, to be taken to
keep such things out of their reach. NM.
Delpech and Reynal likewise advise all
experimenters never to throw away tri-
chinised flesh, but to burn it as soon as
their examination is completed; for a
fragment of it, carelessly exposed, might
be eaten by q rat, the rat devoured by a
pig, and this last become the cause of fatal
accidents. They recommend farmers to
be very cautious in feeding their pigs, to
avoid giving them offal flesh without first
boiling it to destroy rats and other small
c%arniverous animals, and ne7e to leave
human or other excrements in places
where pigs can so.