What effect has the meat or milk from diseased animals upon the public health?J. Medole, book and job printer, 1866 - 49 pages |
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Page 10 - ... text-books. It was not a poison dug out of the earth, extracted from plants, or prepared in the laboratory of the chemist. It was not a poison administered by design or negligence. But it was a poison unknown to all concerned ; and was eaten with the meat in which it was contained, and of which it formed a living constituent. When the festival at...
Page 27 - ... eggs are carried in various directions, not a few of them ultimately finding their way into pools, ponds, ditches, canals and running streams. 6. The freed eggs, if mature, contain ciliated embryos capable of active progression, when brought in contact with dew on the blades of grass, rain-drops, pools of water, ponds and lakes. The prolonged action of moisture without, aided by vigorous movements of the perfected embryo within, serves to loosen the lid-like end of the egg-shell by the opening...
Page 11 - Zenkerhad given of a fatal case of trichinous disease was remembered. The remnants of sausage, and of pork employed in its manufacture, were examined with the microscope, and found to be literally swarming with cncapsuled trichinae.
Page 11 - Rostewurst had been infested with trichinous disease by eating of trichinous pork, the parasites of which had, at least in part, escaped the effects of smoking and frying. This awful catastrophe awakened sympathy and fear throughout the whole of Germany. Most of the leading physicians were consulted in the interest of the sufferers, and some visited the neighborhood where most of the afflicted patients remained. But none could bring relief or cure. With an obstinacy unsurpassed by any other infectious...
Page 17 - ... Hjaltelin, of Reykjavik, that a fifth part of the human mortality in Iceland is caused by hydatid disease. And how great is the influence which the dog exerts as an intermediary in propagating such disease, cannot be better illustrated than by the fact of Dr Leared's having suggested, as one of his two measures for preventing the human hydatid disease, that all the dogs of the island should be medically treated for tapeworm. " The evidence against the dog in this matter...
Page 10 - Upwards of a hundred persons set down to an excellent dinner, and having enjoyed themselves more maj&rum, separated, and went to their homes. Of these one hundred and three persons, mostly men in the prime of life, eighty-three are now in their graves ; the majority of the twenty survivors linger with a fearful malady ; and a few only walk apparently unscathed among the living, but in hourly fear of an outhreak of the disease which has carried away such numbers of their fellow-diners.
Page 11 - ... by the paralysis; it is mostly the result of paralysis, peritonitis, and irritative fever combined. No case is known in which trichiniasis, after having declared itself, became arrested. All persons affected have either died, or are in such a state of prostration that their death is very probable. Most educated people in Germany have, in consequence of the Hettstadt tragedy, adopted the law of Moses, and avoid pork in any form. To some of the large pig-breeders in Westphalia, who keep as many...
Page 39 - The contamination of the animal food supplies, " has affected the health of the people to an extent becoming more and more appreciated the more the subject is investigated." " The tens of thousands of carcasses of diseased animals, sold in large towns, are stealing life from human beings when and where we least expect it.
Page 26 - It has been shown by dissections that the liver of a single sheep may, at any given time, harbour several dozen specimens of the fluke, and it is certain that every mature entozoon will contain many thousands of minute eggs. 3. The escaped flukes do not exhibit powers of locomotion sufficient to prove them capable of undertaking an extended migration, but their movements may subserve the purpose of concealing them within the grass or soft soil where they have fallen. Their habit of coiling upon themselves...
Page 17 - Leared) rests upon numerous experiments, conducted under circumstances leaving no doubt that tapeworms were produced by feeding them on fresh (hydatid) bladders. The conditions necessary for the propagation of the worm are nowhere so complete as in Iceland. The farmers kill their own meat, and the offal frequently containing living (hydatid) bladders is the food of dogs.