The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-02-13
Pork Poisoning.

CfS6INSGri Ohio. Feb. let 1874,
Professor William Clendeuia. who filis
the chair OF anatomy In the Miami
Medical College OF this city, returned
TODAY from professional sisit. 70 Au-
rora, Indiana, twenty.six miles below
this city on the Ohio River. The OBJ
;cct of his visit was the investigation
OF several cases OF trichin@ spiralis, OF
recent occurrence In that place. The.
first victims are Mrs. Thrcnart, a Ger,
man widow, and her three cildren, two
boys aged fourteen aud seven years.
and girl aged ten years. !
DR.. Clendenin was interviewed and
furnished the facts which follow: IL tap-
pears that Mrs. Threnart had two hogs
killed for home consumption about
four weeks ago, one OF which had been,
sick, after running the streets q month
or. so before killing. The animal he'd
what IA called the "droop." Ii was stla
IN the limbs and lost appetite, but after
dosing with sulphur and sweet milk IL
recovered and fattcned. A quantity Of
sausage was made with the meat, and
OF this Mrs. Threnait and her children,
parlook freely. On last Monday u was
prepared and cooked In the usual way.
On Tuesday last the parties took sick,
complained of n whitening pain IN the
bowels, of being very tired and sore oil
over the surface Of tho body. Vomiting
and diarrhoa set In, and the family phy-,
sican was called. lie thought tho
symptoms were those of typhoid fever,
aud treated accordingly. The Illness,
of Nhc mother and her children excited
the sympathy of her neighbors. and
they took il in turn 10 nurse them.
Mrs. Duyster, wife of the Methodist
minister, with her two children, the,
Youngest only tour years old, was the
first nurse, and devoted herself exclu-.
sively TO tho Christian duty. Sho took
up her abode in the sick house, and,,
when meal time came, prepared and ate
some Of the sausage, together with the
Youngest child. The other child would
not touch it.
On the next day, Thursday, Mrs..
Buyster aud her child were seized In,
the same manner as the victims she,
came to nurse and still no suspicion
was aroused as to the cause.
The same evening Miss Davis, aged,
10. and Miss MollenhoG, aged 20, two,
charming young women, came to nurse,
the sick, and at slipper partook OF the,
sausage and some Of the fried meat,
They were seized with pains In the,
stomach and bowels in an hotir and were,
deathly sick. An old woman prescrib-,
ed hot whisky punch and made them.
drink freely, which increased the vomit-
ing, and they are now convalescing. !.
A lad named Krieger, who brought
kindling wood to Mrs. Thrcnarts
house, had supper and Is also down
with the same Sickness. ~
Finally Mrs. Ross came and ato OF
the meat and soon after took sick In the,
same manner as all the others; but she,
at once suspected the meat as tho cause
and said so TO the physician. a, y,s,
lie called In Dr. Sutton, Of tie Hoaith
Department, and scientific analysis OF
the sausage, cooked and raw, was made
upon which tho startling fact was re-.
vcaled that the meat was literally alive,
with the trichina spiralis. SO tenacious.
is this little thing of life that ]. was
seen to survive the picking process and
the cooking of the meat. The entire
carcass of the hog that had been sick is
infected not even th6 Bones being free.
from the invasion OF tho cntozoon.--',
Under tho microscope II looks like,
knots aud coils Of the common earth,
worm, With very sharp or pointed ex-
tremities, and while this Is being writ
ten n spcck Of the flesh, not larger than
the head of small pin, Is. on view, and.
contains millions Of the lnaggots wrlg,.
Cling and twisting about, although to-
tally invisible TO the naked eye. :
When DR.. Cendenin lett Aurora last
night all the patients, except the two
young ladies, were still lying very III. i,
The symptoms were alike IN all. A.
peculiar palencss OF the skin, with o
ivid pufiness around The eyes, and tho
lower extrcmilics pulled aud swollen.
They lie crouchcd up In bed. with tho
shoulders drawn forward and the knees
drawn up to the chin. There Is pain.
ful weakness in the limbs. II Is painful
to protrude the furred and thickcned
tongue. The voice is husky and chang
cd In tone. There is diarrhea, with n
tendency to dysentery, thirst, complete
loss of appetite, aud fever which In
Creases 10 wards night.