The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-10
TRICHINA DEATH.


The Chicago times says: Fourteen weeks
ago the family of l.. p, Blood, farmer
dwelling near GrinnelI, comprised thirteen
members, two daughters-in-law and two
grandchildren included. 1t so happened,
unfortunately enough, that common arti
Gle of family consumption was raw pork
A new crop of inviting hams having been
gathered by Mr.. Blood, slices from these
were freely eaten without being
submitted to the crucible of cooking
Shortly after the first indulgence, Mrs.
Blood and four of the children were taken
with violent diarrhoa, cramps in the stom-
acb. and subsequent vomiting. A doctor
was summoned and gave his medical Opin-
ion that the five had been poisoned by ar.
senic. Whence il came was beyond discov-
cry. Relief was afforded partially, and the
| others went on eating the deadly meat to
which no suspicion was attracted, Wallace,
the second son, was the next one stricken,
and more severely. Two or three days later
and nine of the thirteen were ailing, some
more than others. At this juncture, the
eldest son. Hulburt, came home with his
wife and two children, from Augusta, Kan
| sas, to take care of the sick. The doctor was
still OF the opinion that arsenic had some
| how crept into the cooking, and thence into
| the stomachs of the patients. All of them
| continued to have violent pains and diar
| rhoea, and weakness was inevitably the
result. After an illness of five weeks Allie,
the wife of Wallace, died. She was worn out
with pain, having suffered intensely. No
direct cause could be found for her death, yet
no examination was made, or thought nee
essary. Two weeks ago last Saturday, Willie,
a lad of twelve years, died He did not seem
to suffer so much as the other, but grew
| weaker day by day till death came to him.
He was sore, as if bruised, all over his body,
and could not bear to be touched or moved.
No examination was made either in his case
and still the raw pork had mot been sus-
pected.
| THE SECRET DEATH.
But one day Mr.. Blood, who was able to
be about, carried ham TO his son Hulburt.
A portion of it was eaten, and almost imme-
diately there were four more patients. The
doctor now had his attention pointed
| to the pork. and at once charged
upon it all the previous troubles OF
the family. To make certain, four or five
pounds Oft were sent, nearly two weeks
since, to DIR. j. Adams Allen, of this city,
who no sooner placed it beneath his power
| full microscope, than it presented a most
hideous spectacle of fe, and one which there
was no mistsking. He instantly wrote the
Iowa doctor that there was no doubt about
the case, and instructed him as to the best
| known remedies for the dreaded disease. On
| Monday last, Wallace Blood, accompanied
py Hulburt, reached Chicago. Wallace
had been suffering nearly thirteen weeks
with the cramp and diarrhoea, and grad
ually growing weaker, though his SPLEEN
| did constitution yielded but slowly to
disease. He decided on learning the ma
| ture of his malady, to place himself in the
hands of DIR. Allen for treatment. His
brother who has had but a slight attack,
came to take care of him. Arriving in town,
they stopped at the Grand Central. DIR.
Adams called DIR. Justin Hayes to consult
with him, the case being an important one.
| and the disease one that has thus far baffied
the medical men to great degree. The
young man has a good appetite and ruddy
| color; but he is without spirit, and there is
the internal warfare forever waging his life
away. His entire body is sore, aud white
swellings appear on the muscular parts
Il The doctors say that his case is of the
severest form, and they doubt il he
can ever regain his former health, though
J he may live many years. The cramp:
are always liable to come on, and from
these he will be most liable to suffer suddeI
death. Mr.. Blood informed the reporter or
} last evening that his sister Annie, aged le
! was dying and he did not expect 70 find heI
alive when he reached home. TIE bel
/, members of the sadly stricken family art
not considered out of danger. The symp
tons in all the cases were similar in charac-
ter though not alike in degree. The trichina
were found in the fat quite as numerously
as in the lean meat, though the contrary ha:
commonly been supposed. The case has
been presented by DIR. Adams to the medical
college with which he Is connected as one o.
the most remarkable of its class.