The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-04-07
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TO the patient, except what consequence sur
wives in chronic form.
less than three months, and in such instances
the disease 10 called "eured." In this case,
in the summer of 1868, q person was being
operated on for . tumor Of the neck by Ger. /
man surgeon. During the operation the /
barred muscles were observed to be Abundant-
ly supplied with the characteristic shells or |
oysts Of trichinas. The patient related, in |
reply to question whether he had ever been |
very sick, that in tho year 1915, with the 9TH
or six msmb ers Of commission for the in
| spsction of schools, he ate . meal OF ham,
sausage, cneese, etc., at an inn. All who
ate of these provisions soon after fell sick
and died, except the relasor himself. Suspi-
cion fell upon the inn-keeper. A judicial in.
yestig alton was held, but without result
| precisely as il would be now if we had not
| that knowledge of the trichinae we possess.
| And in this case the survivor might have
| gone to his death and yet nothing have ever
| been known, in his particular case, OF the in
| festation by trichinae, which had proved ia
| tai to his six associates, had 1t not been tor
| the knowledge science had furnished many
| years after that fatal meat was eaten. SINH
| lar instances of our coming, many years at
ter, to an understanding Of the cause of death
, OF like character, and which otherwise were,
| with more or less confidence, attributed to
superstitious causes, might be cited, but on.
| other will suffice
In June, 1851, in the neighborhood of
Hamburg, several well persons having eaten
ham, fell sick Three of them died. and 9TH
ers were long in critical state. judicial
investigation was held without satisfaction.
Ham poisoning was supposed. but long after
wards il WAS shown that the symptOms and
| other circumstances pertaining ID the sick
ness and death of these people, were precise
ly similar with those subsequently ascertain
ed to be trichinse infestation.
| In the district Of Madgeburg the cases of
this disease spread over period OF four years
Since the year 1854 whole series of epidem
les of this disease have been observed. They
occurred a. Plsuen, Cable on Sale, Qaedleh-
burg. Burg near Madgeburg, Wsimar, and
Hstdstadt near Eisleben and other places.
If we come to enquire why it is that These
| epidemcs have not occurred In other cOun
tries as in Germany, we learn that 1t is be
cause the flesh of she pig is SO much more
largely used ss food in Germany than else
where. This animal is slaug htered IN i'm
mense numbers. In Berlin the yearly CON
sumption is 100000. There exists ia Ger
many, moreover, the habit OF eating bits O
uncooked lean pigs flesh, and in come of th'
e epidemics, as well as in single cases, wher'
6 butchers were infected, 1T was ascertalned tina
most of them were the habit Of eating
little of the unco0ked meat at the time of cut
~ ting it, az well as that which adheres to tn
e knife IN cutting.
d Again. the only security Standardization
> if pork is eaten, is either to fad, by careful
examination with the microscope, that th
70 flesh is free from trichinae. or that the hes
"a has been thoroughly cooked by heat. The In
s, vestigations which have been made on thi
"a point disclose that the meat is almost neve
cooked Sufficiently 10 kill the trichinea. If W
wish to avoid intestation we must never ca
ie rdU pork !: for in Burg a great number c
d Gu ses of disease aud dealt were occasioned b
d people eating raw meat bread for break
's fest. Ia boiling, roasting, frying, or srnUl
ie ing more or les Of the meat may renal
raw. The greatest danger - from ham, an
u if usei it should be thoroughly boiled. Ii
" certain ihat = tTicaInae exposed to the boz
~ ing point invariably dies. But it il equal!
o, certain that frequently this temperature
10 not reached In boiling and roasting if it j
y not the whole of the meat Is exposed to it
40 This lie certainly the case when large piec,
Is are boiled or roasted, and even Gu, IN slice
70 not unfrequently tho inner parts are half
ne wholly raw. The parts are yet, when expo
CT ed, found TO De soft and reddish. There ca
a. be no doubt that IL such cases The inner pa
% of the meat has not been reached by kiln
s, temperature. Hence, il is obvious that b
60 such boiling, roasting or fryi Z, the danger
ne not prevented IN J. Tribune.