Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-19
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To THE EpIToRs OF THE UNION AND
DISPATCH or all terro 70 the pork
packing houses, this is probably the worst.
The discovery of triehine in their meat
causes a feeling somewhat akin 20 that
which an honest person may be supposed to
experience when wrongfully charged with
theft. Asa general rule, pork is the only
meat infected with these terrible animal
cuI6 They are extremely hard to destroy,
The only method now known being to raise
the temperature Of the meat, in cooking,
above $50 degrees Fahrenheit; at that tenn
perature the vitality Of the egg becomes
destroyed.
How TREY ORIGNATE.-lt is difficult
to say. However, az swine are habitually
nosing over and stirring up decomPosing
matter in search Of food, It is probable the
food thus obtained may contain or be adj
hered to by these invisible species Of ami
NAL life. The question now arises why do
not more cases oocur7 There are two rea-
sons. First there may be but one kind Of
deoomposing matter originally containing
their germs, and that, perhaps, rarely to be
found ina hog-pen oryard. Second, medical
scienc points out 10 us that nothing but the
liquors Of the stomach dissolves the shell Of
the egg in which they are encased, thereby
producing vitality. II the liquor Of the
stomach is not strong enough, they remain
dormant and pass of through the bowels,
doing no harm.
THEIR OPERATIoN-n however the
liquor is the right strength, they become,
in less than forty-eighi hours, endowed with
life, and lay their eggs in countless num-
bers Then, following their instinct they
cui their way through the bowels and seek
their way to the muscular system, where
they again lay their eggs and die. The
egg thus deposited viii remain intact
for years, ill they are perhaps again
taken into the stomach by the cizcu-
lation. During the period the worm
cuts its way through the stomach and
bowels is the time the disease becomes
apparent. Imagine Tor s moment the
punoture through the organs referred TO,
BY thousands Of points 90 small as 10 require
microscope 10 discover them. Is il to be
wondered at that the death which ensures
is horrible, speedy and surs7 The bowels
becoming intensely infamed will retain
nothing, and a coDsssss diarrhpa is the re-
salt which weakens the system rapidly
ill death results. Perhaps one dose OF the
infected meat might be survived, but in
most cases the meat has been eaten in such
quantities as 70 render il fatal at an early
hour. Considering their incredible power
Of Multiplying in 90 short time, the only
wonder is that the person has ever bsen
found to recover when once attacked. Their
capacity for increase is thousands to each
and every insect. Il has been proved they
only inhabit the muscular part Of the hog
or human being, which they Geek almost
Immediately afes birth. They are never
found 20 the fatty portion, and seldom, if
ever, in the middliRg OF side pork. To be
certain in avoiding them though, there lie
in this country ~ yet comparatively 30
danger. The raeat in cooking should be
raised throughout TO the temperature at
which they are destroyed i viii be
remembered they perish at fifty de-
grees below boiling water point Some
NAV ask how they manage to pass the
teeth without getting crushed. Doubtless
many are crushed, but the food taken into
the mouth cannot be mastioated 90 fine as
10 destroy them all. Many other invisible
worms and animals are taken into the
human system which are passed out at the
bowels or remain harmless While they live
in them. bat these, though one ofthe snail
es., prove themselves as well one Of the
deadliest ofthat class to human existence.
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