New-York tribune., 1868-01-04
TRICHINF sPIRALIS.

The Lousvillans are getting somewhat ex-
cited over tins yexed question From long article In
The journal, We quote as follows:
"Our community. like all others, have within the hs
year or two read and heard great deal about rchin
which small worms, invisible except with the M
crOscOpe and inhabng the muscular portions OF the
the animal And It seems fact established beyond
question that in the eating Of tehnous pork, the ani
may produce death exactly ar In swine good many
human deaths from this cause having been reported in
parts of Europe and at points In this conn
try have created considerable alarm and rendered PORK
suspicious and unpopular The last case OF death That
we read Of was a recent one IN 81. LOUIS.
We hoped that the evil would get no nearer 70 u.s. but
we were invited Tuesday aud yesterday, by two ply
s,cgps OF this city to examine specimens Of tIchna at
their office. very diminLtivc quantity Of swine mat
Teaed TmSers Of Tie dc1esh .tle things some Of them
cOed up ike sleeping snakes and others IN motion ke
snakes vide They have been idcnuned as flcl-
pe by scentic men Of city. familiar with the plates
and The descriptions Of these little pests They were
taken from hog three days and yet seem ar lVey
a ever and VIC are told that they been found equally
lively after being kept days In brine These iacls
prove that although their size Is Ntte their vitality Is
great In fact they have borne for three days without
injury. temperature OF lS0 below zero chronic acd
which coaguiaes the muscular hber, produces no eV
upon them and longcOntnued immersion IN brue or In
strong smoke does not affect them. -
"Of course the reader Is anxious 70 know where hese
trichina found. They were discovered py Mr. tea
sor farmer Of the highest respeeta6lnty ana q hog
raiser living five or six miles BEYOND Jenersoh,owh, ~
Jefferson County. He says that he has FOUND them IN
Oueha OF the hogs OF that vicinity and that upon ehS
lining hogs from various portions or the ntate; ne hs
found the little wretches IN two out Of three one fac
however reported by him, seems very singular ara lha
k that he has f0uud them only IN the lungs of e hOPs
where their presence IL indicated by small red spots
Now we have not read that only the swine lungs have
been infested either In Europe or THIS country Dy lhese
animals but Oh the contrary, have been under the l
PRESTON as SAID above that their chet headquarters
were the muscles. ., . .Ao h. p,o,
j Lawrence Smith, last year to the College oI w S
and Surgeons In ths city the protective power OF goou
cookery was thoroughly established by that eminent hu
thorty II is fully established truth that these ehtOzh
Of which we sneak are destroyed by temperature OF
2l2o the boiling point Of water But let II be remembered
that these animals stand boiling water Or Snort
time Hertwig kept them In boiling water ~ minutes
without killing them. but they are destroyed Dy CON
tnuing them at the boiling point for 25 minutes 20 Iet
us roast fry boil or bro WELL and we snail De suDect
TO no Inconvenience unless We feel little sensitive AZ
the Thought OF cooked tchlne upon our stoaehs But
then we will know that We daily swallow III nulus hu
solids multtudes OF anmacule OF untold vareteo'Jus'
as ugly looking as they, and swallow them alive 100
"And we should add that Mr.. ReaBOr mas seen uchnb
for years past the swine OF Indiana ana lhols-n n
former State nine years ag0-but did not Know what
the unt very recently yet no deaths are
known or believed TO have occurred from that ehue III
those States and none have occurred In lns IL !"
believe the very opinion OF ecentnc men Inat
the trehina swine have always existed thOugh Tue
discovery OF them not made Till lately Ihereiore III
spite Of trchne, let enjoy our boiled or Droeo NAM
our cOrned pork sausages, and all the rest OF the
ntudinOus preparations of pork with which kentucky
abounds We have always had trchnaiZed SWINE put ms
A. customary Kentucky thoroughly 10 cook pork our
people have not vietimized family died recently
in from eating unc0Oked ham. and dlsas
ters have occurred from similar cause in Iowa But
there ia no case recorded Of injury from cinG Srds
taken In thoroughly meat Professor BlOts new
OF Cookery may not only largely Increase en-
ioyment an eating transmutatons Of swine into pork but
prove thorough and perfectly Trustworthy antdote to
GracttfI0 gplTGHg."