Writings of Dr. Carl H. Horsch (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...became enlarged. After examination and deduction of other diseases, I had to diagnose scrofulosis. 1 AusfUhrliche Encyklopadia der gesammien Staatsarzneikunde, von Georg Friedrich Most, M. D., Ph. D. The patient was a reliable, intelligent observer. He stated that he never had had any sign of said disease in his life, and that there was no case of scrofulosis on his father's or his mother's side. After I found out where my patient bought his meat, I ascertained that his butcher had slaughtered and sold the meat of an ox which had a large swelling near one of his ears. The gentleman who saw the animal called it a wolf. In this case I found no other cause than that diseased meat. Two years ago a farmer brought a fat welllooking turkey into my house. When it was prepared for roasting, it was found to have a very large liver, with white patches about as large as a cent all through the tissue. On further examination, it was determined that it was fatty degeneration of the liver; and decided that the rest of that fowl would perhaps be better relished by the worms. Glanders, hydrophobia, malignant pustule, splenic fever, tuberculosis, trichina, and other diseases are dangerous, and communicable from animals to man. When we consider the diseased animals and their meat used for food, there is not only the aversion which we have against eating diseased meat, but certainly great danger to man of contracting diseases by the meals. Prof. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, sent the following answer to a letter from Mr. B, of Dover, N. H. Washington, February 12, 1887. Sm, --In reply to your communication of the 9th inst., referred to me by the commissioner of agriculture, I would state that, so far as I know, there is no systematic and complete inspecti...