The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02

duction OF Trichinse Spiralis Into the
Human Stomach-Several Persons
Brought 90 the Point of Death-Mi-
eroseOpic Examination OF the Diseased
Meat-Great Excitement Among n Ger
man Population.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. l, 1874.
Professor William Cendinin, who fills the chair
OF anatomy in the Miami Medical College OF this
city, returned to-day from professional visit to
Aurora, Indiana, twenty-six miles below TINS city,
on the Ohio River The object OF his visit was the
investigation of several cases of trichin9 spirals,
of recent occurrence in that place. The first
victims are Mrs. Threnart, a German widow, and
her three children, two boys, aged fourteen and
seven years. and girl aged ten years.
DIR. Clendenin was interviewed by your special
reporter, and furnished the facts which follow
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
1t appears that Mrs. Threnart had two hogs
kilec for home consumption about four weeks
ago. one OF which mad been sick, after running the
streets a month or so before killing. The
animal had what is called the "droop." 1t
was stin in the limbs, ana lost appe-
lite, but after dosing with sulphur and sweet
milk it recovered and fattened up. quantity of
sausage made with the meat ana of this Mrs.
Threnart and her children partoOk freely On last
Monday 1t was prepared and COOK ed In the usual
complained Of whitening pain in the
bowels, of being very tired and sore all
over the surface OF the body. Vomiting and
diarrhGa set in, and the family ply stefan was
called. He thought the symptoms were those OF
typhoid fever, ald treated accordingly. The i'll
ness ofthe mother and her children excited the
sympathy OF her neighbors, and they took it in
turn to nurse them.
Mrs. Buyter, wife OF the Methodist minister
years old, was the first nurse, and devoted her.
self exclusively to the Christian duty. She took
up her abode in the sick house, and, when meal
time came, prepared and ate some OF the sausage,
together with the youngest chhd. The other child
would not touch it,
sICKENBD.
On the next day, Thursday, Mrs. Buyter and her
child were seized in the same manner as the vic
tins she came to nurse, and still no suspicion
aroused as to the cause
The same evening Miss DAVIS, aged nineteen,
and Miss Mollenhon, aged twenty, two charming
young women, came to nurse the sick, and at
supper partook of the sausage and some of the
fried meat. They were seized with pains in the
stomach and bowels in an hour and were deathly
sick. An old woman prescribed hot whlskey
punch and made them drink freely, which in
creased the vomiting, and they are now con-
valescing.
A lad named Krieger, who brought klndling wood
to Mrs. Tbreanart's house, had supper and is also
down with the same sickness.
Finally Mrs. Ross came and ate Of the meat and
soon after took sick in the manner as all the
others; but she at once suspected the meat as the
cause and said so to the physician.
MEDICAL ADVICE.
He called in DR.. Sutton of the Health Depart
ment and scientific analysis OF the sausage
cooked and raw was made, upon which the star
ting fact was revealed that the meat literally
alive with the
TRIcHINA sPIRALIs
So tenacious is this little thing of life that it was
to survive the picking process and the cook
ing OF the meat The entire carcass OF the hog
that had been sick is injected; not even the bones
being free from the invasion OF the entoZoon.
Under the microscope it looks like knots
very sharp pointed extremities, and
While TINS is being written speck OF the nesh not
larger than the head OF small pin. is on view.
and contains millions of the maegots wrigglIng
and twisting about, although totally invisible to
the naked eye.
When DR.. Clendenin lett Aurora last night all
the patients, except the two young ladies', were
were alike in ALL peculiar paleness Of the skin,
lower extremlties pulled and swollen. They lie |
crouched up IN bed with the shoulders drawn for
painful weakness in the limbs. 1t is painful to pro-
trude the urred and thckened tongue. The voice is
husky and changed IN tone. There is diarrhea,
with tendency to dysentery, thirst, complete loss
OF appetite, and fever which increases towards
night.
DIAGNOSIS OF RESULTS
The oldest boy and the girl OF Mrs. Threnart, and
Mrs. Buyter, the minister's wife, who is a fine
healthy woman, VIII undoubtedly die; but some
hopes are entertained that all the other victims
will survive.
The affair has created
THE GREATEST ALARM
and CONSERVATION in the community OF Aurora
where there Is large German population
which lives on pork and other meat OF
the hog kind. crowd of them invaded
DR.. Fulton's room at the hotel last evening
with pieces OF pork sausage and ham to have them
examined for fear OF trichina, and public conf |
dence has been so much shaken in pork, as arti.
Gle Of iood, that the commodity is tabooed and 1t
now drug In the Aurora market