A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley.

  • Walley, Thomas, 1842-1894.
Date:
1891
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Credit: A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From a sanitary point of view, such flesh may not, and probably is not, productive of harm—and in various parts of Scotland thousands of pounds weight are annually consumed after curing and smoking—but though it may be innocuous, it is decidedly unmarketable. ip) Wet Braxy.—This term is used in a very extended sense, and practically it includes all dropsical conditions, whether these result from blood disease, as anaemia, from ursemic poisoning, or from organic disease of organs. As in the case of turnip braxy, so here, the flesh of such animals is largely consumed, after being salted and smoked, as braxy mutton, but the remarks made as to the nutritive and deleterious properties of dropsical flesh apply equally here. (^r) Red Braxy.—This term is even more indefinite than the preceding, and practically all conditions of the carcase and of the internal organs in which there is marked discoloration are (in Scotland) classified as red braxy. The importance of this fact cannot be over-estimated, as conditions of an entirely harmless nature are confounded with those possessing the gravest attributes. Thus, congestive conditions resulting from a deterioration of the blood simply are classified with lesions produced by that most deadly of all diseases, anthrax, and with those resulting from septicaemia, and not unfrequently with parturient lesions and with the discoloration resulting from fever, inflammation, and imperfect bleeding. In all parts of Great Britain—more frequently in England and Scotland, perhaps than in Ireland or Wales—sheep die in large numbers as the result of a blood crasis induced by grave faults in dieting, and on post-mortem the blood is found to be very dark in colour and imperfectly coagulated, while there is extravasation and effusion (often sero-sanguineous) into the various tissues of the body: and neither by microscopical examination nor by feeding experiments can it be shown that any deleterious element exists in