Note 12 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE VARIOUS SOURCES OF THE USUAL FORMS OF SUMMER & AUTUMNAL DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE MEANS OF PREVENTING THEM.
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The following fact, communicated to me by Mr. Samuel Lyman, a member of congress from the state of Massachusetts, shows the importance of attending to the condition of butchers' meat in our attempts to prevent malignant fevers.
A farmer in New-Hampshire, who had overheated a fat ox by excessive labour in the time of harvest, perceiving him to be indisposed, instantly killed him, and sent his flesh to a neighbouring market. Of twenty four persons who ate of this flesh, fifteen died in a few days. The fatal disease produced by this aliment fell, with its chief force, upon the stomach and bowels.