The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-03-23
farm aud AOasrhuld.
More OF the Trichina Disease
Ia Germamy.

The newly discovered disease caused by
trichina continues to cause great constorna
ton In Germany. Fresh outbreaks have
succeeded TO the series OF fatal cases at
Helerslobcn, where somc hundreds of por-
sous fell sicl and many died through cat
ing diseased pork. Stringent measures,
both on the part of the State AMI the part
Of the butchers Themselves, have becu takcn
in some parts Of Germany, TO prevent the
sale Of trichinous pork In the larger towns
every beast that il killed is submitted to
microscopic investigation. In the town of
Brunswick tho examination has been com.
pulsory since 1863, and is conducted by
medical men appointed for the purpose.
An English paper says;
l"The trichiua cannot live at The tempera.
ture OF boiling water, so that thorough
cooking Of suspected pork is all that is re.
qnired TO render It harmless. An illustra.
tion Of this occurred at lIodcrsleben. A
woman who bought some saisages became
serioualy i'll through eating some of them,
whilst her husband, for whom she fried the
remainder, was uuiniured. AS meat how
ever, is usually boiled or roasted in pieces
Of some considerable size, il may easily
happen that the interior may not reach the
required temperature. Professor lIurtwig
proof OF this. lie placed two pieces of
triohinous pork, each about the size of
ones thumb, IN cold water, and then raised
ii 10 the boiling point. Ono piece he boiled
twenty-five minutes, the other twenty-five;
and he found that the first piece still con
tanned living trichina, whilst in the second
pieco thcy were all dead. The violence Of
the outbreaks at llcttstadt and llcderslebcn
must undoubtedly bo ascribod TO tho pen.
chant OF the inhabitants for raw or INSULT
ciently cooked meat
II has been enormously stated by Bomo
that II is difficult to find trichiua, in infected
meat. This is not tho case; little OK.
perience enables ono to detect the position
OF one with the naked eye, aud W th n little
practice IN the use OF the microscope, they
can be focused in few minutes, and II Is
by no means an unpleasant object, with its
slow and graceful gyrations; il lives, moro.
over, for several weeks, aud even months,
in this manner aud il at rest merely ro.
OURS little careful warming to sot it
once more coiling upon itself.
Professor llertwg, in some interesting
researches, showed with what astonishing
upidiiy these parasites propagate. lIo
examined Tour young porkrs by making
small incision, aud examining tho nesh
removed under the microscope, it was per
fcctly free from trichina. TO tho first he
gave one 10th (about sixteen grammes) of
trichinous meat; to the second, two; to the
third, three; aud to tho fourth four; and
then watched the effects. They became ill
the same day; diurrhma ana q general
stiffness Of the limbs were the principal
symptoms; and ono of them died. In all
not only the. ono which died, but likewise
in tho other three, not thousands but mil.
lions Of trichin@ were present. Before they
were killed. small excisions were made
from tmo to time, and microsoopical ex-
aminations showed tho presence of these
parasite worms; even in eight days their
flesh was, so to speak, saturated with them