Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals: Including Some Account of the EctozoaCobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer)
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Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals: Including Some Account of the Ectozoa
Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer)
Helminths; Parasites
16. Blankenburg, 1863, 32 patients, 2 deaths; new cases in 1864 (Dr
Scholz).
17. Hettstädt (Prussian-Saxony), October, 1863, 158 patients, 27 deaths
(Rupprecht).
18. Eisleben, December, 1863, and January, 1864, 18 cases, no deaths.
This result was attributed to the employment of phosphoric acid
(Rupprecht).
19. Hettstädt, February and March, 1864, 8 patients, no deaths. Two
cats were also attacked, one of which died. Nearly 50,000 Trichina were
counted in an infected leg of pork (Rupprecht).
20. Quedlinburg, 1864, 120 patients, 2 deaths; benzine was employed (Dr.
Wolf).
21. Hettstädt, January, 1865, 15 patients (Rupprecht).
22. Berlin, 1864, 3 cases (Dr Cronfeld). Several butcher boys (Frischer).
23. Leipzig, 1864, 14 patients, 2 deaths; 4 were infested after having
eaten raw beef hashed on a block which had previously received the flesh
of a trichinised hog (Dr E. Wagner).
24. Potsdam, 1864, 5 slight cases (Dr Mollendorf).
25. Celle (Hanover), 1864, 8 patients (Dr Scheller and Dr Baring);
Trichina proven in the pork by Gerlach. In 1855, 12 Trichina (?)
patients were treated by Schuchart.
26. Hedersleben, 25th October, 1865, a pig was killed and sold; on the
28th the malady appeared amongst the workmen; 350 patients, 100 deaths.
Of 100 children infected, none died. Trichina found in the autopsies (Dr
F. Kratz).
Dr Davaine also adds the following outbreaks:
In Massachusetts, 1867, 6 patients from having eaten raw ham, 1 death
(‘Medical Times,’ 20th April, 1867, p. 431).
Ravecchia (Bellinzona), 1868, 5 patients, 4 deaths (Dr Zangger in
_Landbote_ of Winterthur).
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