Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-02-08
The Pork Panic i'm Pruss in-Frighl.
f.sl Effect Of Diseased Meat.

A Berlin (l'russia) correspondent Of the
New York H raid writes, under date OF De
cemher 10
Perhaps many of your readers may not
know what trchlne ere, Though they are Ly
no means II recent discovery. Tie trichin..
spraIls is II small microscopic worm or ami
malculc, which was first observed by the dis
tingulshed anatomst, Richard Owen, in 1895,
and is found in the muscles and ntcstlnes of
various animals, especially pigs and rabbits,
in such enormous quantities that single
ounce Of pork is said to contain occasionally
lis many us one hundred thousand of these
parasites BY partaking OF the meat infected
with them they are traisftrred to the human
body causing intense suffering, which, in Nit
nv instances, is followed by painful death
The first symptoms Of triclinitis were noticed
some years since in Dresden, but no particu
lar attention was paid to it till the sumner
before last, when IA number Of cases occurred
both here and in other parts of Germany,
which led to n medical investigation OF this
novel form Of disease. AS usual, the doctors
were Of different opinions; some of them de
caren that it WAS nothing else than what is
generally called mcasly pork, which had been
hilOWu ioi NPcS Hdo HtfCi bttH
particularly dangerous, and although many
PEOPLE refrain from eating of the unclean an
lnnl, especially in the shape OF such German
el,aces MS raw ham and smoked sausages.
he whole affair was beginning TO pass out OF
memory. The pork butchers hrealhed more
freely, and urichnnphobia was almost laughed
out OF coun,enance, when n few weeks ago t
WAS suddenly revived hy the announcement
that at Hedersleben, a small place in Prus
sian Saxony. the mysterious disease had brok.
IN out with great vrulence and WAS spread.
ing over the adjoining villages its origin he,
ing distinctly tlaccabIe to trichinferous hog
wlnch had been killed by the butcher of the
place and parceled out among the inhabit-
ants
Day by day the accounts grew more alarm
ing, whole families were stated to have died
off in cXcruclating agony and l,y the last bul-
etins the number of cases actually amounted
to over three hundred and twenty of which
eighty had already proved fatal 1t is impos-
slble to describe the CONSERVATION excited b
the intelligence; since The first appmritinn of
the cholera, nothing like it is rccolected by
the oldest inhabitant
A general strike took place in the pork eat
ing line; in vain every butcher protested that
his meat. ut least. was sound and uninfected
by the formidable inIuroria; the public turned
from it in disgust
In the meantime, physicians crowded to
Hedersleben from all parts OF the country to
investigate the symptoms Of the disorder, and
communicate the result o1DtheIr observations
to the nrwspnp rs, the pubcat.o on of which
increased the universal panic. Tho poorer
class $ of the population who (brsides pota-
toes and rye bread) live chief on pork, either
fresh Or salted, were in the worst dilemma of
all, having the alternative of going without
meat altogether or OF eating food which they
knew or suspected to be unwholesom-, and
which the first medical authorities affirmed to
be dangerous to health and to life itself
1t was proposed, therefore, that every butch
er should be ordered, under severe pains and
pc, alties, to have tine animals slaught' rel by
him submitted to u microscopic examination,
and on Friday last great public meeting
took place in which the question was debated,
and both pro and anti-trlchinist-the latter
consisting principally of pork butchers and
their retainers-were assembled in great
force.
The meeting broke up. as is usual with such
meetings, after concluding that something
must be done" but no action has been taken
MS vet by the city authorities The butchers,
however finding the tide Of opinion running
against them, have gisen way so far as to
have their meat examined il the manner pro-
posed, and in almost every butcher shop you
now see handbill posted up with the inform
alton that the joints of pork, hams, @usagcs,
No hnv han,, oLn liz, pni iv1uI bv Hoo