Science. RARE DONE MEAT INJURIOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 25 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Science. RARE DONE MEAT INJURIOUS.

Thuke are no indications that the mania for undercooked beefsteaks is on the decline ; in restaurants, only such are served. This refers to robust people, but weakly persons continue to patronize pounded raw chops and steaks, and the juice of uncooked meat. M. Toussaint exposes the grave dangers of patronising such a dietary, as, if the meat be unsound, the germs of disease -will inevitably pass into the system. He states no contagious malady possesses greater virulence than tubercular affections, or consumption, and that is the form of the disease most to be encountered in meat sent to the market. In the slaughter-houses, an ox, etc., is not rejected as unfit for food, unless the lung be entirely affected, but gray granulations may still exist and produce infection. M. Toussaint took the lung of a cow not very much aifected with consumption ; he placed it under a press and collected the juice ; he inoculated rabbits and young pigs with the liquid as it came from the press, and after he had heated another portion to 114deg. F., the result was, all the subjects died within a very short period. He extracted the juics in the same manner from the thigh of a pig, dead from consumption, previously cooking the flesh, to correspond with that served in hotels, etc., according to the latest fashion. Then he inoculated rabbits with such grilled juice, and they also invariably died of consumption. There are cases where the consumption of raw meat is necessary j here duty suggests to ascertain well the origin of such meat ; in all other cases it is prudent to only eat meats suitably cooked, that is, meat whose interior has been acted upon by a temperature of 150deg. or ICOdeg. — Kansas City Science Beview.