Letter of the Day: January 29 (3 of 5)

Dr. Fred Pettersen

 

Comfort, Texas.

January 29, 1881

 

Surgeon General, U.S.A.

Washington, D.C.

 

Sir:

 

By to-day’s mail I have forwarded a piece muscle (biceps) taken from a  girl aged 8, who died from trichinosis, the same is remarkably full with trichinae spiratis in the second stages.

 

Very respectfully

Your Obt. Servt.

Fred Pettersen

M.D.