Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-02-21
FEARFTL SCENES N A GERMAN VILLAGE,
Effect o. Eating sncooEed SWINGS
Flesh

Effect oI Eating sncooked swine,
Flesh.
DR.. Pouchet, who has charge Of the
scientific department of the 4Uenir Ma
Honal, Paris Journal, gives a frightfu
account OF the new plague which is com.
! mIttIng such havoc in Germany. The par
/ tlcnEars given bv NJ Puurhet are taken
! from private letter from DR. Karl Stein.
/ of Frankfort, dated the 9th ultimo, as fol-
I lows
I EderSlehen is little town in the en-
! vlrons of Magdehurg-one of those little
/ German towns that seem the abode Of
| peace and rustic felicity. where no noise
/ - heard we the merry clink of the glass
es al the hier-brauerei. and the Jolly tones
of t drinkers calling for another glass
al around. Well, this little town, 40 smil-
in% and happy, is now filed with mourn
/ ing and desOlation. For a whole month
past death has reigned there A fearful
death after uneSampIed sufferings, and
those that are acquainted with the nature
OF their disease. know that fhev are being
eaten up alive by n legion of worms, hard
lT so thick as a human hair, that have
worked their way into the tissue of their
| flesh, their Muscles and their nerves. Is
not such fate horrible to dwell upnn >
n,
OF t Frankfort, wrote to one of our friends
that upwards of ore hundred children
for they appear to enjoy an immunity
had been deprived o their parents There
WAS hardly a house In the village that did
not number victim At that date up-
wards of three hundred patients were
awaiting death which they knew to be in
liable, prey to fearful sufferings -
From seventy 10 eighty Of the inhabitants
who at the outset Of the epidemic had felt
unwell, had taken to flight to escape from
what they considered to be the cholera
but they had fallen down on the roads
and died without relief; their corpses
alone were picked up"
The epidemic, Dr.. Pouchct proceeds to
f2Y e M YRs f5cs9e seagSet iI by Yts the u The
The tricbire is one Of the eHtozoa Of the
pir. and il i capable Of being transplant
ed into and thriving in the human body.
In Germany pork flesh imperfectly cured
and smoked in the shape Of ham and
German sausage, is a staple article Of
food and from the human stomach, where
they penetrate with the ham and sd7tcis
son dear 10 Germanic palates, the larvae Of
these entozoG pass into the blood, their
size being 50 microscopic as to enable
them to penetrate even into the minutest
veins: they lodge in The nerves. in the
muscular and cellular tissues, and feed
unen those parts of the human cr@aniza-
ton. causing fearful agony and greet con-
stitutional disturbance, which ends IN
death No cure has been rs vet discover
cd. but the preventive process Is obvious
To abstain from such preparations ofpork
as are eaten in a semi-crude state Is Il
sure means Of avoiding trIchinosIs
hut To eat half smoked souci,Son and
/ raw ham. cut in thin slices, il as general
! q Gus ON i'm Germany as smoking or beer
drlakinv. Hence the rapid prop CATION
/ of the disease. as a simple slice Of hmm or
( German sausage may contain larvae Of mil
4 lions Of these parasites.
In Germany the morbid pathology Of
the ravarps caused l.y this formidable de-
s+rovcr has been carefully investigated
/ within the last few years DIR. WIrchow
of Berlin. (known as the opponent at Herr
/ Won Bismarck but whose scientific rrru
tation far exceeds his political famc.) has
made conclusive experiments on the sub
i4cte. from which it appears that in add
ton to man and the pig, rabbits and mIcf
are liable to he trichinised; but that th'
Aor. sheep, OK and pigeon are not
\ very short time ago the Berlin fOrk
Rutcbers' Association ,ummoned 4 meet
inc of the ktcultv and the professors oftht
University TO decide on the proper meas
nres to. adopt in order TO prevent tn.
snread of" trichinosis" The meeting wa
marked hv a curious incident, which hal
been rnisrepnrtpd hv some of your cOntem
roraries. What really took place was tins
: Professor Wirchow had Just spoken an
set forth the hest means to prevent tn
; snread Of trichincs, when veterinar,
, , surgeon Dr. Urban. who was present
loudly nroressed his disbelief In all tina
the professor had stated, and bv way q
? clenchinr his .ument, he offered to ea
any amount of so-called trichinised
nofk flesh 4 rather noisy discussion 10
! lowed. hut Professor Wirchow pnt an en-
! to it very soon He pulled a sGueisso
n ont or his pockct-he told the meeting h
had examined it through MICROSCOPIC
was full Of trichines and then cnttlns
| slice of it rendered II to the unheIlevIn
n veterinary Or Urban was rather take
= abac<: he declined to make the expert
r ment. but the ieers ol the meeting ha N
O touched him he took a little nIhhle Mt tn
t rroffered slice. and hurriedly left the room
: re proceeded to neiEhhoring chemists
i and administered 70 himself 80 violent a
= anaeti, that (savs FoSs Zcitrng) the iear'
ei doctors friends need labor under I
apprehension as to his safety