Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-07
MEMPHIS APPEAL
Prom the Berlin Cor. Londsn star.
INTERESTING TO PORK EATERS,

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The following case, reported In Cas-
par's Review Of Forensic Medicine for
the year eighteen hundred and sixty
three, has obtained an additional III
tC1cst from the calamity which has re-
Gently been decimating Wegeleben n
the n~eighborhoOd. In the year eighteen
hundred and forty-ive several clergy
men and ether official persons met AZ
Jessen, q little town In the disulct OF
Merseburg, for the purpose OF inspecting
the schools. Several members OF the
commission took their luncheon 81 the
house of a winemerchant named 6ese.
The fare consisted OF cheese, sausage
raw ham, and white wine. A Mr.. Stou-
kert came rather later, and ate nothing,
but drank q glass Of wine. A few days
afterward. all the seven who had taken
luncheon became very seriously III, and
four Of them died. The symptoms were
violent diarrhea, red spots on the skin,
swelling Of the whole body, accompanied
bv great pain, sieeplessness and delirium.
The doctors were completely puzzled,
al. could come to no other conclusion
than that the food had been poisoned,
which seemed the more probable as Mr..
S.glkert whobadonly drank some VINE,
remand perfectly wen. Suspicion natu-
rely fell Oh the winemerchant Gese.
Two Of the bodies were disinterred ana
chemically examined, but no trace Of
poison was discovered. The popular be-
lief, however, that there had Deen ioul
play, was so strong that Gese was rom
that time g ruined man NooOoy Wouiu
have shy further intercourse WIZ M4'
and he found himself compelled TO emil
CRATE with bis family 10 Americai WheIe
he Is supposed 10 have died IN great 1noi-
geace. IN the yesr eighteen hundred
and sixrv.three the teacher Oehme, one
Of The thee who had recovered from the
IMAGINED poisoning, came 70 Berlin Tor
the n-ru1ss Of having an operation per
formed on his neck. As Don as NJ.
Tanreubeck. the celebrated surgeon, had
laid bare the upper layer Of muscle, he
observed g very large number OF small
white spots They were examined by
the microscope and found TO be dead
utcLines. Here, then, was the solution
Of the fatal mystery, which had caused
The utter ruin Of an innocent man, and
might very easily have cost him his life
s. well as his good name. Indeed, IL IL q
suuDOsiLOn more painful han improba-
be that the above is not an isolated case,
ana that before tricbines were discovered
their effects may have been attributed 10
poison, and brought suspicion, nno worse
punishment, on innocent persons. Cases
q rrichines have been frequently Te-
ported lately from other places besides
WeEeieben. The medical men agree,
however, uhatH every part Of the meat
be subjected to 8 heat OfOne hundred and
nifty 10 one hundred aud sixty degrees Of
Fahrenheit, the trichines must die, snd
the meat become ~innocuOus. Roman
baths nave been adopted as \ cure with
success, probably from the above cause.
The patient has 70 take two baths g day,
and the heat Is more than the constitu-
ton Of these terrible little animals can
endure. Opticians have had reason 70
regard them as their best friends. The
number Of orders for microscopes has
been 50 great in Berlin during the last
few weeks that the instrument makers
al not possibly supply them fast
enough.