Handbook of meat inspection . the patho-logy of domestic animals. No success, how-ever, was had in cultivating the organisms inquestion. Schmutzer, with Krummacher,considers as excluded the possibility that the formation of the gasis due to micro-organisms, and is of the opinion that we have to doin this case with intestinal gases which have become changed intheir composition by diffusion. Motz ascertained that multilocular air cysts occurred mostfrequently in hogs which are fed upon the waste products of thedairy, and this Observation was confirmed by others. Judgmeut.—Mesenterial ephysema is


Handbook of meat inspection . the patho-logy of domestic animals. No success, how-ever, was had in cultivating the organisms inquestion. Schmutzer, with Krummacher,considers as excluded the possibility that the formation of the gasis due to micro-organisms, and is of the opinion that we have to doin this case with intestinal gases which have become changed intheir composition by diffusion. Motz ascertained that multilocular air cysts occurred mostfrequently in hogs which are fed upon the waste products of thedairy, and this Observation was confirmed by others. Judgmeut.—Mesenterial ephysema is found quite incidentallyin hogs in perfect health and in good condition. Accordingly, andin view of the further unobjectionable character of the other vitalOrgans and of the meat, this affection is to be considered as insig-nificant and of a purely local character No special measures arerequired with reference to affected parts of the intestine, sincein cou-sequence of the emphysema they can notbe used as sausage Cysticercus tenuicolliswith artificially pro-truded scolex. DIQESTIVE ArrAKATUS 291 Parasites.—The retro-peritoneal tissue, omentnm, and mesen-tery furuisli favorable situatious for Cysiiceracs tenuicoUis, whichoccurs there in sizes varying fiom tliat of a pea to that of a , ecliinococci auil waiuleriug liver Ankes rnay occurunder the peritoueum. Fiually, in liorses, Fdaria papulosa hasbeen observed free in tbe body cavity, as well as Slrongylus armatm,which latter is also found under the parietal fold of the peritoneuni;and occasionally Spiroptera reticidata attached to the Peritoneum. (f) Liver. Malformations.—Occasionally lobulation is entirely absent inheg livers, so that the liver appears like an amorphous mass (non- FiG. 64.


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