New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16
Triehinfasrs IN ro,xa.
DEATH OF FOUR PERsoNs-sEvERAL OTHERS DAM
GER0UsLY AFFECTED.
Prom, tte NonticeIlo iowa Express, June u

From the Monticello Iowa, Express June II
From private letter to one of our townsmen
dated Marion, Linn county, Iowa, June 3, we learn
we following particulars Of number of cases of
4 hiehina
"a family by the nsrae Of Bemis who reside I'M
toWh, vent out to their son.in-law's in the eoun-
| try, and brought home ham. which some of them
ave raw: In about week they were taken sick,
ana shelf pny selsn pronouneedthe disease typhoid
ieyef, anu Ieatea MEM accordingly. There are in
the fanny the oid gentleman and lady, their
daughter, two Sons and four grandchildren-
sons and two daughters. All 81 them tvare taken
cooked, and is getting better. The Others alta II
raw. One of her sons died Friday and was hurled
Saturday the other boy was net expected Ia live
till morning. The two granddaughter are very
sick, but seem to be getting neither better nor
worse. The old gentleman and lady are in verv
critical condition. and of their sons died SatuT-
day forenoon, and was buried Sunday (June 81.
He was about 81 years of age. Before he was
buried bis body was swollen to almost twice
its natural size, and burst in a number Of
places His flesh seemed perfectly rotten. The
other son is not expected to live. From the
first boy that died the doctor cut several pieces
of muscle, taking them from the thigh, arm and
back, and by the aid of powerful microscope,
discovered trichina in large numbers. In one
specimen they examined they found them at the
rate of nearly two hundred thousand to the cubic
| inch Il is needless to add that these Develop
ments have caused an intense excitement at Ma
rion, and every one who has eaten hog within the
last month experiences all sorts Of Eormy sensa-
| TONS Our readers will observe that all of these
sufferers from this cruel disease ate their meat
| either raw or rarely cooked
| Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Republican,
| Dies MONIES, Iowa, June "a profound excite
ment trichina exists in Marion, Linn county.
/ A prominent family of nine named Bemia, partook
of uncooked sugar-cnred ham, chopped up. Four
of them died in great agony and il is probable that
the rest with probably one exception, will not
live, as they were worse yesterday. The faculty
of the Keokuk Medical College are in attendance.
The ham was eaten four weeks since. The first
symptoms were those of diarrhea, followed by fe-
yer Of typhoid type. An examination of the
muscle shows trchina OF one fortieth Of an inch in
length to the number of 5000 to the square inch.
The death agonies are said to be terrible.
From the Linn County Iowa Registerl
No little degree of excitement has been ocea-
stoned in this vicinity during the past week by the
fact being made known that almest every member
of large family of this place have been affected
with that dreadful disease, trichiniasis. tt seems
that the family, or those Of the family who were
and are affected with the disease, have been in the
habit of occasionally partaking of portions Of
uncooked, but well cured ham, FROM hogs Of theiE
own raising, and that each of those who were lie
the habit affected, and those Of the family who
remained healthy were not in the habit of eating
pork in any shape. Mr. Lansing, the son-in-laW al
Mr.. Bems, is the only one unaffected and he ID
one of family of ten. In some of them the
disease is much less severe than in Others in pro-
portion as they partook of the pork. They were
/ symptoms was alike in each, and was
Of a typhoid character in some degree
Il Indeed, taking into consideration the fac
I. that they were grouped together in temporarily
~ constructed and lily ventilated apartments, owe
the clothing store of Bemis Justice g. Co.. (wheri
W the Bems family, the one affected live,l and tn
circumstances that they were using the water from
- a well in the rear of Fishers saloon, which wa
supposed upon investigation to be impure, ans
J. that there was vegetable and animal matter nea
n in state OF decomposition, some of the causes O.
hold thavv IL
weeks OF more for that complaint by the attending
physician; and not until consultation was called
B and minute Investigations instituted was the dis
n ease diagnosed in its true light. William Lansing
the son-in-law of Mr.. Bemis, was the first to suc
. cumb to the disease, which he did last Fridal
morning, June l. At6P NJ of the same day. al
r the physicians of the place held q post nlorten
p over the body, and have since found innumerablI
trichinn in the different muscles Of the subject
4 Multtudes of anxious inquiring people of all ages
e sexes and colors, have flooded the Office Of Drs
Ristine Owen, McElhenny's drug store 9TH
"a office of DR.. Smith,) and the office of Dra
- Bardwell & Wilson. Especially was the latte
place crowded all day Sunday with excited men
women and children, all DESTROYS of having YieJ
lie of the wondrous parasite which infests huma
flesh, and has already severed two links from
once happy circle in our community. Dra. Ma
d and Cutler, of Cedar Rapids had splendid m
Groscope up with them there, which afforded theI
a fine and greatly magnifed view of the destroyin
=, worm Mr.. Henry Bemis, an uncle to the fiFs
:" victim to the disease died the next day, and wa
H. buried Sunday afternoon. These, we believe, or
the first authentic cases which have occurred il
the country of triehiniasis, and they will, n
doubt, cause quite excitement in the medica
y world, and especially among the physicians Of thi
y country.
- Especial dispatch to the Chicago epublican.I
Dies MONIES, Iowa, June 9.--In reference TO th
Al Linn county trichina case, the Daily Register ha
Z the following:
y ." 1t is the full conviction of all the physician
n who have investigated the trichna subject, tina
q hog cholera is the same thing. and that it is no
found except where the hog has had access d
:. dead swine or other carrion. The worm found Il
!. the hog that has just died of the cholera, and il
II these persons, is the same, as is fully demonstra
ted Another family, in Monte township, Lin
If county, is sick"
The physicians generally of this city are of tn,
g same opinion.
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