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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 235, 30 March 1866, Page 2

A Feigktful Disease. — At "Wegeleben, a little town of 2000 inhabitants, near Halberstadt, the death bj trichines have now reached the terrible number of fifty-four. Of the 250 other persons taken ill, some more* it is feared, will not survive many days. It appears that the trichines came all of one swine, and that its flesh had been mixed with that of other animals for sausages. The sufferings of the sick are described as horrible. The first symptom of the malady is a sort of rheumatic pain, which, the patients say, is speedily succeeded by a sensation as though they were being gnawed by vermin and eaten up alive. The patients retain their consciousness to the last, and the instances are frequent when they have implored the physician to shorten their sufferings and destroy them with poison. A large vessel, supposed to belong to the second century of the Christian era, has been found buried in the sand at Sundewitt, near Westerstrap. It is 80 feet in length, 12 feet broad amidships, with 4 feet 5 inches depth of bald at the same part. When it was discovered it contained a quantity of arms, such as spears, arrows, axes, &c., and a number of well-preserved Roman coins of the second century. All these were carried to Copenhagen,