The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-15

eight persons, of whom twenty eight died
| Several other similar "epidemics - have
| also occurred in the same country In the
United States, many sad cases have also
been recorded, as the following instances
will show:
DEATHS FROM THESE WORMS.
At Marion, Iowa, May, 1866. Mr.. Bemis
and eight members of his family ate rare
done and raw ham, and were Immediately
taken sick. Upto June 3d. three had died.
and others were considered critical. 4 post
mortem examination showed about two
hundred thousand worms to cubic inch of
muscle in one of those who died At Du-
buque, Iowa, according to DR.. Asa Horr,
two families were attacked. In one five
persons died; in the other, five or six
Through him we also learn of a case where
the mother of family ate of the interior
rare-done part of a ham and took the dis
ease, while those who ate the outside es-
capped.
At Springfield, Mass, February, 1868,
MIR. Ransley Hall and family ate of raw
ham, and all seven were attacked in vari-
A daughter, aged seventeen, died, and the
father had long and very dangerous i'll
ness.
At Albany, n. Y, January, 1869, two
rest of the family ate of the same ham after
cooking, and escaped. At Rome, Oneida
county, n. Y, December, 1868, nine per-
sons in all, ate raw smoked and dried saul
sages. All were dangerously sick, and four
adults, the father, son, and two daughters,
died before January 18th. Their sausages
and salt pork were examined and found to
be full of Trichina, as We're also the
muscles of those who died.
In New York City, January, 1869, eight
cases occurred in 4 boarding house in Car
lisle-street. from eating sausages. Two
of the victims died in the New York Hos
pital; and others were dangerously sick
1t is significant fact that the physicians
in two hospitals mistook these cases at first
for typhoid fever, and only discovered the
mistake after one death had occurred.
Experiments have fully shown that moth
ing less than the most thorough cooking
so prolonged as to destroy all redness of
the juices even in the interior of the meat
is capable of destroying these parasites and
rendering pork safe article of food
Cases, some of them fatal, have occurred
from eating ordinary fried sausages, roast
pork. and pork that had boiled two hours.
But the majority of severe and fatal cases
have happened from eating smoked ham,
raw or partly cooked, and various kinds of
smoked and dried sausages, which are often
eaten raw or slightly cooked.
Therefore, if people will eat pork at all,
they should make it n fixed rule never to
eat it unless thoroughly cooked, if they
would avoid one of the most painful and
dangerous diseases known.
There appears to be no certain way of
preventing the disease in hogs, for it is prob
able that in most cases they get it by eating
rats or mice, which are often full of Tri-
china, but it is quite probable that they
may often be infected by eating slaughter
house offal. Cats, rabbits, guinea-pigs,
young dogs, and several other animals may
be infected, but adult dogs, like old hogs,
are not nearly so likely to become infected
as when young. Although lambs and
calves may be infected by forcing them to
eat Trichinous meat, it is probable that
they seldom or never become infected ma
turally.-ILearM and Home.