Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-09
The Recent Trichina Cases in TOle-
do, O.-HistOry Of the Disease.

nue., partook of meal of rarely cooked
pork sausage. Almost Immediately Mr..
Eiless was seized with violent diarrhea
and vomiting, which continued for two
days Within twenty-four hours Mrs.
Eiless was attacked in the same way as
her husband, and also boy three years
of age and IA little girl of five. a physi-
clan was summoned, who pronounced the
disease some common complaint and pre-
scribed accordingly for Mrs Eiless.
The medicine did not produce any
effect and, the physician failing to call
the second time, DR.. Gustav Fenneberg
was Consulted, who Immediately declared
the cases, all of them, to be the terrible
trichinOsis. Mrs. Eiless was both indig-
nant and disguised, and insisted that no
" worms" were at work upon her anato-
my, and refused to take any medicine,
saying that one doctor had most killed
her and she would not try another.
At the stage of the case at which DIR.
Fenneberg was called, there was only one
course of treatment to be pursued, and
that was to keep the patients alive, if
possible, for five or six weeks with the
aid of powerful tonics, but the little boy
fingered along in agony for short time,
when he died. The physician desired to
perform post mortenl examination, in
order to confirm his diagnosis, but the
mother of the child would not hear to it,
and 50 he was buried Dr. Fenneberg in
vited numbers of other physicians to ex-
anime the patients, and they all agreed
with him in the opinion that they were
Eiless persisted in her refusal to take
(Which in all probability would
not have saved her, as she was too Sc
riously atfecteA, and on Thursday after
noon was released from her misery by
death.
Her husband finally allowed an autopsy
to be made, which was performed Friday
afternoon by DR.. Fenneberg. He re-
moved portion of the muscle from the
left breast and right leg, which, when
placed under a Craig microscope, re-
vealed the presence of trichin8 to the eX-
tent of fifteen or twenty in pieces ottlesh
but little larger than pin head. The
doctor has a specimen on exhibition at
his drug store on Washington street,
which was viewed by large number Of
the curious on Saturday. The portions
Of muscles removed were divided so far
as possible among the physicians of the
city, and specimens sent abroad to several
medical colleges
Mr.. Eiless has, it is thought, passed the
critical period of the ordeal, and is in a
fair way of recovery, being able to walk
about considerably. The girl is not con
sidered out of danger, nor, indeed, is it
known that she will recover. The only
person in the family, another child who
did not partake of the sausage, is per
fectly healthy, and has exhibited no
whatever of the terrible NAL
adv.
This is the second appearance of
trichnoSis in Toledo it first occurring
here some four years ago, when several
of IA family named Miller, liv-
ing on Lenk Hill, ate of raw smoked ham
nd died tn erefrom
so little is known by the public in gen
cral of this terrible scourge that it may
not be inappropriate in this connection
to give briefly its general history. 1t was
first discovered By DR.. Owen in 1885, but
was not looked upon as of much impor-
lance until 1860, 4 clear and we'll defined
case then appeared in Dresden, in which
"A girl sixteen years of age was the victim,
and which excited general interest in
very specific knowledge in regard to the
disease. Next we hear of it in 1868. \
of l03 persons at a hotel dinner
in llcldstaedt, Prussia, partook freely of
a kind of sausage called "R0staCurSt,'
and nearly all of them were seized with
the new malady, a large number of the
cases resulting fatally. In 1864 the first
case known in the United States appeared
in New York city, and two years after
ward family of ten persons at Marion,
Iowa, died from eating raw ham. Since
that time cases have occurred with in
creasing frequency in all parts of the
The origin of the parasite is not
known. 1t is found in rats mice, cats,
dogs, swine, hedgehogs and moles In
!. @ture it is considered to be somewhat
similar to the vinegarworm In appear
lnCe it resembles a minute earth or angle
worm, its average size being l-2S of an
nch in long by 1920 in diameter 1t is
generally taken into the stomach in the
shape of a calca~ious cyst or minute
she'll formed something like SMALL
she'll Almost instantly the she'll is de
destroyed by the gastric juice, when the
parasite leaps forth fully grown and
lager for the fray and commences immc-
lately preying upon the mucous mem
)ranc of the stomach and of the alimen-
AIRY channel The worm in the cyst IS
without sex. but in short time that dis
inction is developed, and the female
gives birth to young trichiH6, several
hundred at a time, and keeps it up so
ong as she remains in the intestines 4
half pound Of pork will contain 10000,
100 of them, and it can be readily seen
What an incalculable number in a short
lime are generated in the body of the
-ictim When they have made their
way into the muscles they do not gencr-
itc but after life of from seven weeks
- tnrnn months Income incaseG In q cal !