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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 July 1884, Page 13

A paper dealing with an outbreak in a German town of that terrible disease trichinosis was recently read before the French Academy of Medicine. More than three hundred persons were attacked with the disease, and of these nearly one-sixth died. It was proved beyond question that all the victims ate the meat absolutely raw, it being the custom to chop it fine, and spread it like butter on slices of bread. One family which consumed some of the same meat, in the form of cooked sausages, exhibited no trace of the disease. It was found that doses of alcohol were most beneficial in treating the complaint.