no less than 300 Cysticerci.” From this it follows that the flesh of a largely infested animal is capable, under the circumstances of ration distribution and imperfect cooking, of originating numerous tapeworms. Not many years back the leading medical journal of this country challenged me to produce evidence as to the injuriousness of beef and mutton from Cysticerci. The writer stated in his article that I had “failed to produce a single specimen of beef or mutton measles” which had not resulted from experiments conducted “at the Royal Veterinary College;” and he said, further, “that butchers, fleshers, and veterinarians were practically right in refusing to adopt the opinion of Dr Cobbold, that measled beef or mutton is produced to any great extent” independently. How palpably I endured a species of unjust reproach for being somewhat in advance of the knowledge current at the time may be gathered from the voluminous evidence which has since cropped up from various parts of the world. It was, indeed, mainly through experiments conducted at the Royal Veterinary College, and reported in the ‘Lancet,’ that professional men in India first became acquainted with the possibility of finding Cysticerci in beef. The statements of Dr Joseph Fleming, who was one of the foremost in discovering cystic disease in cattle, have since received abundant confirmation. The Indian Government Reports given in the February issue of the ‘Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science’ for 1873 are especially instructive. Referring to the prevalence of Cysticercus in the ration beef at Jullundur, in the Punjab, the Inspector General (India Medical Department) reports as follows: “Cysticercus was first noticed here in the beef tendered at the Royal Artillery ration stand in May, 1868. For some two years previous to this date condemnations of cyst-infected meat had been frequent at Peshawur, Rawul Pindee, Meean Meer and several other stations in the upper part of the Punjab, and here I had often detected the parasite in meat exposed for sale in the bazaars, but no trace of it had been observed in the Commissariat beef, either by myself or any other medical officer who had preceded me. “From May, 1868, to November, 1869, ‘cyst’ was more or less frequently found both at the Artillery and 92nd Highlanders’ ration stands; but since the latter date it has almost entirely disappeared. “The following table shows the quantity of meat destroyed on this account during 1868 and 1869: