New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-10


can be yelowish white granuIe with the nikeo
ieye.
bodyt More than two deceninms have elapsed since
their discovery. The first OF disease and death
by them of which We have proof occurred 10 the year
iel5 The survivor himself related the story and IL
curicnsy interesting 10 the least curious OF readers
II e1empllfed also how. though the nfestatlon
70 TO as TO
with the surviving or cured yet IL may eEd BY the
TrichnR becoming so closely confined by an adventl'
tious she'll that they are powerlcss do further injury
to the patient, e1cept what consequence survives ia
chronic form.
This process, however does not occur in less than
three month"; and in such instances the disease 10
called cured" In this case in the Summer Of 1863
person was being operated for tnmor Of the neck
by German surgeon. During the operation the baied
muscles were observed TO be abun1anty supplied with
the characteristic shells or Of Trichn9 The pa.
tient related. in reply to question whether he had
been very sick. that In the year lsl3 wlh the
other six members Of commission for the Inspection
of schools he ate meal OF ham. sausage cheese, etc..
ut an inn. All who OF these provisions soon after
eu sick and died, pt the reator himself Suspicion
fell upon the inn-keeper. Judicial investigation was
reid but without resut-presicely as II would De now
II We had not that knowledge Of the Trchna we pos
sess And in this case the survivor might have gone
to bis death and yet nothing have ever been known in
his particular OF the infestdton by Trichin@.
which had proved fatal to his six associates had 1t nos
/ been for the knowledge science bad furnished many
years after that fatal meat was eaten. Similar IN
stances Of coming many years after 70 an under.
staining OF the Of death Of ike character and
rbuted to supposittious causes might be cited DUE
another will suffice.
several well persons having eaten ham, fell SICK Three
Of them died. ard others were long IN critica state
Judicial investigation was held without satisfaction:
Ham poisoning supposed. bat long afterward u
was shown that the symptoms and other circumstances
pertaining the sickness and death or these people,
were precisely similar with those subsequently, aseer'
tanned to ne Trichin8 infestati0n.
We come now 20 tho occurrence Of epdemics OF this
disease. Zer ckcr first observed such an epidemic 10
and near Dresden and showed the Trichin@ found in
the ham aud sausage made from one particular pig.
This pig had been butchered on farm near Dresden.
The butcher and Of the farm and other people.
had fallen sick, aud previously perfectly healthy ser
want girl had died. In her body an abundance Ok
Trchine were found. With the finding of the Trich-
ina in tie muscles Of her body, Virchord commenceda
/ series Of experimental observations These may De
briefly stated. rabbit fed with Irichina-fesh from
this girl died month. and its flesh was found fgi u
u. " oso died in month. With this meat three other
rabbits fed Two OF these died at the END OF thee
weeks and the third in the fourth week Lastly the
flesh Of animals dead of lrchine was Ted 70 an
other rabbit VI bat very little, yet died at the end
OF six weeks In all If these the muscles after death
were fonnd filed With 1riclhne. and sven IN me
smallest particle OF the meat several were found. 10
TO be observed that rrchna had never been found IN
these animals unless they had been previously fed with
the Tries na,conisinins meat Their LYING nesn was
found in them; get few weeks after they were fed
with te meat. the muscles OF the same animals wero
| found filed with Triehine.
Though these experiments through Eve generations
OF animals, all resulting in DEATH were perfectly
elusive the chance Of any doubt srsibg as to tne acS
fiat the migration really proceeded from the feeding o.
the animals with Trichins it vas further Demon
strated tba. the Trichiu in the fed meat became FREQ
in the stomach and ntesnes If the rabbit that they
became sals Of both sexes which In short time
attained length Of from three 10 four milmeteTs and
could be dsoerned as fine white thresds lbat ova arg
produced In the female and from these embryos even
In the body Of the mother and that about week later
these are born and about freely 10 the mucus OF
tn Tss ySsps the
II is the young which penetrate the BODY IDey nave
been found 10 tie Emphatic glands IN the peTtoneas
CAVITY and In the pericarfinm and muscles. il IN
the latter they find the suitable conditions fog their de-
In the district Of MadeebuTg the Of this disease
spread over period OF four years Since the year IsS9
whole series Of epdemics OF this disease have oeem
observed they occurred at Panen. Cable on Sale,
Qucdlenburg Burg near Madgeonrg, Weimsr' AND
| lietdstadt near Eisabler, and other places.
III we come 10 inquire WY II Is that these epdem'cs
have not occurred in other countries "a IN Germany.
We learn that it Is because the neSa OF tne Pg 70
where This animal 10 slaughtered In immense num-
bers. In Berlin the yearly consumption 10 iOoOoo.
There exists in Germany moreover. habit OF eating
bits of uncooked pigs esh and In some OF the cpl
denies "a well single cases, where butchers were
Injected t was ascerained that they ate not merely Of
she bat that Of them in the habit oA
eating little OF the unco0ked meat al the time OF cut
rc t. a. well that which sdheres 10 the knife IN
cutting. .
Again the only security against nfestation II porh
is eaten IS either IN ind by careful examination with
microscope that the flesh Is Tree frvm IricDin& On
that the flesh has been thoroughly cooked BY heat Tie
Investigations which have been made on this point dis.
close that the meat almost never cooked sufhcleDty
TO Kill the Trichine II wish 10 avoid infestaton
must never eat rar pork; Tor IN Burg great hum-
her Of cases OF disease and death were occasioned BY
people Gazing raw meat on bread FOR breakfast. In
boiling roasting frying or smoking, more or less Oh
the may remain nearly raw The greatest danger
Is from ham, and II used 1t should be thoroughly boiled
IA il certain that Irichna exposed to the boiling
pout inv sraby dies But IL 10 equally certain THAI
frequently this temporal Is not reached In boiling
and roasting, Or II IL H. not the whole OF the meat 10
eIposed 10 IT, This is certainly the when large
pieces boed roasted and even cut In slices mos
upfrequently the inner parts are hall or wholly raw
The parts yet when exposed fonnd TO % son and
reddish There be DOUBT that In such easee the
inner paSt Of the meat has not been reached by kill
ing persure Hence II Is obvious that By sseA boil.
ing ing frying the danger Is not prevented
The experiments Of Kuchenmeister TO determine the
relations of snn heat life show ed that largo pieces
OF meat which had been put in kettle, after boiin9
of half hour had only reached temperature OF 46o
Reamur. Afterward II attained temperature OF os
10 90 olncaYdly After being cut up and put TO boil
they attained u temperature OF 39o 70 Co., Roast pork
which was inside bloody had $50 Resmur, but IL viii
happen that the temperature Of the meat and eas
sage when cooked. remsins several degrees below
these numbers From this record Is evident that the
common boiling trying OF sansages a. well % the
cooking chops and roasted pork scarcely reaches the
temperature which will kill the Trchina. The expert
meuts Of Kuchen mester. Heubner and Lsering. upon
the conditions under which kinds Of food from
piss flesh is prepared as affecting the life OF the Irch
ina, show:
brine Of the meat aud by ~ hours hot smoking Of ssu
, Thew are not killed BY three days cold smoking;
and the boiling Of meat for making sausages does moe
certainly kill them.
3 A long keeping Of cold smoked sausage serves y
destroy the life of the Trichna.
II piece Of Aesh containing the Trichine b care.
fy Examined BY the naked eye the ovoid opsQue shell
tha Ia barely a yellOVleh