Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-04-24
DANGERS OF PORK EATING HOW THE
TRICHINA KILL.

We condense the following from the
Health Reformer: ... ...... r..e
When taken into the stomach the
trichina is invested by capsule. The
fbrous capsule is very soon dissolved
away by the gastric juices, thus setting
at liberty the partly matured worm,
which grows very rapidly, attaining its
full size in about two days, being then
many times larger than when first taken
into the stomach when it's length is
only about one-twenty-fifth of an inch.
In about week each worm gives birth
to about 1000 young, according to
Luckart, which immediately begin to
penetrate the mucous lining of the
stomach and intestines. This gives
rise to violent purging and vomiting,
but to little effect for the relief Of the
patient, for the worms are already Sc
cure in the walls OF the intestines. In
a very short time they find their way
into all the muscles of the body, when
the most painful symptoms occur. The
patient fingers along for few days,
perhaps weeks, in the most distressing
suffering, finally dying from exhausta.
ton, or from suffocation caused by the
great number of parasites infesting the
muscles of respirationand thus prevent
ing their action.
In less than two weeks after eating
an ounce of infected meat o person
might have in his intestines hundreds
of millions of these rapacious animals,
whose ravages no remedy can stay
Imagine the agony which person
must suffer, wuile the hnmbeliess herds
of microscopic serpents are continu-
ally boring through the wall of his
alimentary canal. The rapidity with
which the body becomes filled with
those loathsome creatures is most as
tonishing. ...: ., .....,s
Professor Dalton found 2O8,00O to
the cubic inch in the muscles Of boy
who died on the twentieth day after be-
ing attacked with the disease. When
q person has been once poisoned he can
never become free from the parasite.
Death is his most probable end; but
some survive after many months of suf-
fering worse than death. In these cases
the worm becomes incased in calca-
reous sheath, which process takes place
in from one to two years. Here they
may live for an indefinite period, brob-
ably as long as the patient. Virchow
mentions a case in which they we're
found alive in cancer removed from a
woman twenty-four years after they
were received into her system. ss9e.
The HEATHEN CHrNEE NOWHERE -
Major Harbord, q British officer, has
lost his commission for cheating at
cards. A club of gentlemen, all of
whom were intimately known to each
other, were in the habit of playing bac-
carat at Nice. Major Harbord having
become acquainted with one or two of
them, was allowed to join their set.
His plan then was as follows: After
losing all the money in his trowsers'
pocket he would say, t' must get out
my pocket book, and putting his hand
into his breast pocket take out the book,
open it, and take out note, which he
would stake, at the same time laying
the book, as if by accident, on the pack
of cards.
Underneath the pocket-book, which
was large one. was concealed card
"a nine spot), and when the stakes were
made the major had merely to lift up
his pocket book, turn up the card he
had placed beneath it and pocket the
winnings. The fraud was discovered
by waiter who, while selling pack oil
cards, noticed that there seemed to be
more than ffty-two in the pack. and on
looking found several extra nire spots,
Suspicion at once fell on Major Har-
bord, as the only stranger. He was
searched and twenty-nino were found
on him. Who talks of the heather
Chinee now? .rsr q.4..a -4
Sas- The original greenbacks-frogs.