The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-02-20
TRICHINA SPIRALIS.
The Disease ~ Aurora. Ind.---Ten
Persons Eat of Diseased Pork w hat
the Microscope keNeaied---A Horri-
bile STORY.


The Disease ~ Aurora. Ind.---Ten
Persons Ent of Diseased Pork hat
! the Microscope keNeaied---A Horri-
bile Story.
CINCINNATI. Feb. l.-Prof. VIM. Glen
denim. who fills the chair OF anatomy in
the Miami Medical College Of this city. re-
turned to-day from a professional visit To
Aurora. Ind. twenty-~iN miles below this
city. on the Ohio River. The object of his
visit was the investigation of several cases
of trichIna spiralis OF recent occurrence
in that place. The first victims were Mrs.
Threnart. a German widow. and her three
children. two boys aged seven and four
teen. and a girl aged ten years. DR.. Glen
denim was interviewed 10y our special re-
porter to-day. and furnishes the facts.
II appears that Mrs. Tpnart had two
hogs killed for home consumption about
four weeks ago. one of which had been
sick after running in the streets month
or 80 before killing. The animal had
what is called = droop.r II was stiff in
the limbs and lost it, appetite. but. after
dosing with sulphur and sweet milk. il re-
covered and fattened mp. 4 quantity OF
sausage was made with the meat. and OF
this Mrs. Trenart and her children partook
freely on last Monday. 1t was prepared
and cooked in the usual way.
On Tuesday last the family took sick.
They complained Of a whitening pain III
the bOwels-of being very tired and sore
all over the surface of the booy. Nomit-
ing and darrh9a set in. and the family
physician was called. He thought the
symptoms were those Of typhoid fever.
and treated accordingly. The illness OF
the mother and her children excited the
sympathy Of her neighbOr>. and they took
I in turn to nurse them. Mrs. Buyter.
wife Of the Methodist minister, with her
two children, the youngest only four
wears old. was the first nurse. and
devoted herself exclusively 10 the Chris
tian duty. She took up her abode in the
sick house. ami. when meal-time came.
prepared and ate some of the sausage. a.
also did the youngest child. The other
child would not touch II. On the next
day, Thursday. Mrs. Buyter and her child
We're seized in the same manner a. the VIC
Tins she came 10 nurse. and still no suspi-
cion was aroused n to the cause.
That evening. Miss Davis. aged nineteen.
and Miss Mollenhofi. aged twenty. two
charming young women. came 10 nurse
the sick. and al supper partook OF the saIls-
age and some Of the fried meat. They
were seized with pains in the stomach and
bowels in an hour. and were deathiy sick.
An old woman prescribed hot whisky
lliifIi. anu DlNttf lItAli -
which increased the vomiting. They are
now conyalescing. \ lad named kreiger.
who brought kindlinc-wood 20 Mrs. Tire
nart's house. had supper. and Is also down
with the same sickness.
Finally. y Mrs. Ross came and ate also OF
the meat. and soon after took sick in the
same manner "a all the rest. but at once
suspected the meat a. the cause. and said
so TO the physician.
He called i'm Dr. sutton of the Health
Department. and scientific analysis of
the sausage. cOoAed and raw. was made.
upon which the startling fact was revealed
that the meat was literally alive with the
trichina spiralis. 30 tenacious j. fhis little
devil of life. that il was seen to sur
yive the picking process and the cooking
of tn. meat. The entire carcass of the
hog that had been sick was infected. not
even the bones being free from the inya-
sion. Under the microscope Il looks like
knots and coils of the common earth
worm. with very sharp or pointed eN-
treInities and. while this i being written
4 speck OF flesh not larger than the head OF
a small pin j. under view. and contains
millions OF the maggOts. wiggling and
twisting about. although totally invisible
- the naked eye.
When Or. Clendenin leif Aurora last
light all the patients. except the TWO
Dung ladies. were still lying very i'll.
The symptoms Were alike IN ala Pc
uliar palencss Of the skin. "A Ii ID pufiins =
round the ewes. and the lower cNtremities
pufied and swollen. They lie crouched mp.
"a bed with the shoulders drawn forward.
Ind knees drawn up 10 the chin. There j.
painful weakness In the limbs. II i
painful 10 protrudc the illrrcdand thicken-
ia tongue. The voice j. husky and
changed in tone. There j. diarrhna. with
Tendency 10 dysentery. thirst. complete
oss of appetite. and fever which liz
.raScs toward night.
The oldest boy and the girl Of Mrs.
fhrenart. and MrS. Buyter. the minister
wife. who i a fine. healthy woman. will
undoubtedly die. Init some hopes are en-
ertaincd that the other victims will
|urNiVe.
The affair has created the greatest alarm
nd CONSERVATION in the community OF
Aurora. where Their. is large German
population. which lives on pork and other
neat of the hog kind a crowd Of them
INVADED Dr. ~utton's room nj the hotel. last
Ncning. with pieces of pork. sausage and
ann. 10 have them examined for fear OF
richina. and public confidence has been so
much shaken IN pork a. an article of food
rat the commodity Is taboOcd. and II l.
ow a drug in the Aurora market
a scranton dealer IA hair oil. who sold