Trichinosis.
A i'Apeu dealing with an outbreak m a Gertown of that terrible disease known as trichinosis was recently read before the French Academy of Medicine. It is worthy of attention as going far to prove that this disease, usually contracted by the consumption of unwholesome pork, is avoidable, if the ordinary precaution of thoroughly cooking the food be resorted to. In the case m question, more than three hundred persons were attacked with the disease, and of these nearly onesixth died. It was proved beyond question that all the victims ate the meat absolutely raw, it being the custom to chop it fine and spread it like butter on slice 3of bread. One single family, which consumed some bf the same meat m tho form of cooked sausages, exhibited no trace of the disease. It may be mentioned that a certain dose of alcohol exercised a most favorable effect m diminishing the virulence of tho complaint.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 270, 11 October 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)
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