“After explaining to them the possible consequences of eating it a buttock of beef studded with _Cysticercus_ was given to three natives of low caste. They all declared that they were free from _Tænia_, or, to use their own term, “Kadhu dana.” The meat they cooked in their own way. These men were under my observation for some six months. Two of them had no symptom of _Tænia_, but the third, who was a low-class Mahommedan syce, and had probably eaten the meat in a very raw state, developed a _Tænia mediocanellata_ in about three months. “My own sweeper ate this cyst-infected beef regularly two or three times a week for some months. He cooked it well generally as an ordinary stew, and has never shown a sign of having tapeworm. “Into the food of a boy of low Hindoo caste, but who had never eaten beef, two scolices of Cysticercus were surreptitiously introduced, the result being that, between three or four months afterwards, he applied for some tapeworm medicine.” [The two successful experiments here reported are evidently the same as those that I have referred to (p. 72) as having been performed by Dr Oliver, of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Jullundur. The report continues as follows:] “_Tænia mediocanellata_ is very common amongst the Mussulman population of the Punjab, and from reliable sources I am informed that the lower classes amongst them are in the regular habit of eating half-cooked beef; indeed, prefer it so, and it is amongst these people that tapeworm is so prevalent. “But it is not only thorough cooking that is required to guard soldiers in India from the ill effects of eating measly meat; there is want of cleanliness in the general arrangements of the kitchens and serving of meals, which must offer great facilities for the introduction into the food of Cysticercus. “Barrack cooks, unless constantly looked after, are utterly careless as to the washing of chopping blocks, tables, dishes, &c. The dish or pot cover on which the meat is placed when raw is often used without washing for serving the piece up for dinner, and I have myself picked up a _Cysticercus_ from the table on which a cook was preparing food. The dangers too of the parasite being conveyed by the cook’s unwashed hands to the plates in which meals are served, and the common practice of using the same knife for cutting up meat, and afterwards, without washing it, for other culinary purposes, must not be overlooked. With good selection and careful feeding there seems to be every probability that Cysticercus would soon almost or completely disappear from our Commissariat cattle. If they were entirely stall-fed and watered from wells there could scarcely be a possibility of infection after their purchase. “Perhaps with the trench system of conservancy, which will necessitate the growing up crops, a sufficient quantity of root and other green produce may be obtained from cantonment lands set apart for this purpose, to supply green fodder for the cattle.”