Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-07-07
TRICHINA sP1RALIS.

! DIR. Asa Horr, Of Dubuque, visited the
scene of the recent deaths by tricbina
spirals in Linn county, and gives in the
Dubuque Herald tho result Of his obser-
vatious and his opinions in regard to the
disease. The article il highly interest
ing, bat as it is too long for our colum IS,
we extract few Of the most important
points:
| AT Marion, Linn county. and vicinity,
! teen well marked Gases have occurred.
! Five Of these have died, three or four re-
! main Ill, and the remainder are cuEval-
! esccnt.
The first cases were in Maine Town
ship. Three gi,!s and three boys of the
ages of Is, IA, IA, IL, 9 and Q years, chill
dren OF NJ 9. Jordan, Wentworth Jordan,
Benj L. Jordan and widow Dagyett, on
their way from Sabbath School, April
22d, stopping at house, took lunch Of
sandwiches in which raw smoked ba n
was used. Two days after all but one Of
them were attacked with diat rhca, d~vel,
oplns into all the symptoms If trchina-
SIS Effective cathattics were given at
once, which doubtless expelled the great
tr portion o: tue worms before they had
! VINE to multiply fatally. One, .giri O!
10 years, exhibited the symptoms in IT.
veiScd order lameucss Of the muscles on
| tie second AID the diarrhea on the third
day. She was more severely i'll than the
others. had inf ,'nhtion OF the lungs, and
when seen, June l9th, was hardly able to
walk, had also a cough aud hoarseness of
| \ E.rt
| first, as 10 The others A boy Of eleven
years old is the only other case OF the SIX
not near y well. He is thought to be be-
You'd danger, however, unless overlaken
by relapse.
Portions of the meat from the hog,
from witch the ham used in the sand
wichrs WIS made, were put uuder the mi.
croscope and found swarming with myr-
| lads IT trichl,.a, whlch, although appa-
rentiy dead, once IN tie stomach would
become living and prolific worms The
corresponding han, as also the one first
mentioned, alter belng cooked were eaten
harmleSsiy by seven other members #
the family and by visitors. This animal
was selected for ITS healthy appearances,
from herd which had been affected with
use and hi ed IN January last.
The casts ia Nation were nine ia mum.
Der, members Of one family IN that town.
They were Mr.. Een,s, aged -, his wife
81, their two sous Whittier aud H~nrv,
aged 20 and .. tneir daughter, Mrs.
Lansing, with her four small chl!dren.-
these ali became III about May Is after
having eaten Gee AT several times OF
raw smoked ham from four to ten DAYS
previously. Mr.. Lansing ale a. freely
from The same ham rcll cooked, and
showed no symptoms of the disease The
severity OF the cases was thought to be in
direct proportion to the amount of raw
neat eaten 10y each person
Five ct these niue cases proved fA'al,
one little boy, June 1t, Henry b on
the 3d. another child on the Sth, Mr..
Bemis on The 18th, and Mrs. b. on the
18th. Examinations after death on two
Of the bodies showed the parasites in the
muscles, estimated by others aud myself
al about 100000 per cubic inch Some
were also i"un! IN the lungs and Spleen
GA going for samples OF meat from the
sane hog out OF which the Infested ham
lad been taken, the farmer reported that
he had just fed the las, OF it to u SOW who
devoured her own young, having been
to.u flesh Of her own kind would testro,
that propensity. The remedy proved
quite ctlectual, inasmurh as she did ia
lew days, as was stated Of hog choIera
Samples OF flesh irun his anlrn, how
liz my po-resst"n. show an abundant i'll
fusion Of .rlch.na.
The symptoms Of this disease rs shown
IN those cases, were diarrhea on the see,
ond day, pain, soreness and debility Of
the muscles of the limbs on tn. third
day, with swelling Of the face, followed
on the fourth aud fifth days by swelling
Of the handss then Of the feet and legs,
with te~r OF Il low grade, quick pulse
turred tongue AMI sctpIrssuess. The
muscular soreness and pain with fever,
tlrst, tenderness of the abdomen, ami
pru!use sweating, continued a. The main
symptoms until death, in the second or
third week; or eonvaIesceuce, SLOWLY es-
tabllshed in trom four to eight weeks -
Two Of the fatal cases had serious pneu-
monte complications.
HISTORY OF THE DISEASE
Tilchna spralIs, (iiterAlIy IL hair worm
eoied,) was discovered by Pref Owen Of
England in subj CTS brought to the dis
sectlng rooms. This was in 1885, and
though often observed afterwards, was
not regardtd as II source of disease, until
IN 1860. Prot. Lenker OF Dres len, found
trichna in great numbers in the muscles
of a girl who died under symptoms how
recognized as those of trichiniasis. Since
then the cases observed, have been nu-
merous, especially in Germany. In 1868
at Helstadt., Prussia. lO3 persons were
simultaneously attacked and nearly all
died after eating OF raw rausaees at a
festival. In a latter part Of 1865 at lie.
ders'aben, anon. only 1000 inhabitants,
nearly 400 eases occurred with fearful
mortality. In ls64 several member. OF
u family in New York City died after eat
ing raw smoked ham. which was found to
be swarming with triehina. In Detroit
German lady irrepor,ed recently to have
died from this disease, which her ph,si-
clan claims resulted from raw pork eaten
in Germany before emgrating to this
country.
Trlcbina spiralis have been found also