The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-15

Tux Raw Poak DfsrksE. We have on mere
than one occasion lately pointed out some OF
the discoveries that are constantly going on n
breed and live only within man or other AMI
mails many of which produce the most fatal
consequences. The importance Of the practi-
cal study Of this subject may De seen py tne
fact that IN one little town or village In the
enyirons of Magdeburg, called Edersleben,
upwards OF hundred adults have died aimee
Christmas, and three hundred more were, In
the middle Of January, ut the point Of death,
produced by friclinG. This Is species OF
spiral worm, not the thickness Of hair, the
eggs OF which are taken into the system In
diseased pork imperfectIy cooked, and multi
ply by millions, sometimes producing death
almost Immediately, as If by cholera, and at
other times penetrating to the most remote
parts Of the body, the eggs being carried round
In the blood, and lodging, and breeding, and
feeding on every part OF the human organiza;
ton, producing agonizing pains; constitutional
disturbance, and death In thousand ways.
There are some kinds Of these insects that
seem TO seek out the muscles and develop there,
burrowlng instinctively into the flesh; but
others penetrate the nervous system, ana espe-
cially the brain, entering even into the fluids
Of the eye itself, and there living. In fact, a
mans foes become those OF his own mousse
hold-of his own body. AT Berlin, a meeting
of the town councillors, butchers, doctors, and
a sprinkling of the general public, was held
about Christmas, and Professor Virchow pro-
duced a piece OF smoked sausage and pork
which he had examined with the microscope,
and pronounced highly trichinous. Dr:
Urban, a veterinary practitioner, got up and
said that the trichine were the most innocent
animals In the world, and harmless, and that
1t was only doctors without practice that
made a fuss about them, to create occcupa-
ton for themselves The Professors OF
the Medical School, in great excitement,
demanded an apology and retraction, and
finally, that IL this was refused, IT. Ut
ban should eat some of the diseased sausage:
After making every possible excuse, ne at
length seized the sausage and bit a piece OH
and ate it, but Immediately left the room.
One account says that he instantly TOOK a
strong emetic that made him sick; but another
SAYS that five days later, he was confined 10
his bed, and his arms paralyzed, but whether
from an emetic or from the sausage there was
some dispute. The impression was that II was
the latter The Berlin butchers now nave all
pork meat examined under microscope,
without which the people will not buy or eat
It, Large quantities of pork are, however,
exported to England. But there the more
thorough process of cooking seems 10 Destroy
most of the danger. Such meat, however, Is
not absolutely safe for food until the whole
has been subjected to heat of two hundred
degrees Fahrenheit. -
1t is said that case has recently been as
tinctly traced in Indiana, where young lady
died i'm great agony from this disease. There is
no doubt but that the Mosaic and Mohamedan
prohibition of pork was founded on It's great
likelihood of producing this very disease. Inc
hog is filthy feeder where food is scarce ana
often on the excrements OF otner aninls anoo
Now, the lao of existence for these entozoa
seems to be that they can only come 10 lie In
the intestines of one animal where they depo-
sit their eggs, which never come to anything
until yitaliZed in some way by Inc gastric
mice of the stomach. Hence this tendency OF
the hog makes it the most dangerous OF all
animals for producing this Observation-Disclosures
phid Ledger.