Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
A Thoughtful Treatise.

Having been frequently urged to
give my views upon the matter OF trl-
chinosis, and having repeatedly excused
myself heretofore in all cases, 1t may
be weH to briefly touch upon the sub
ject in the interest of scientific and
perhaps international progress
If the American hog is invested with
trichine spiralis, i, for one, do not IA
vor his use as an international bever-
age. Here and in Boston, where the
American hog iss largely cooked with
the baked beans-which acts as an an
tidote to the spiral worm of commerce
the danger is slight, but when we
consider that Bismarck's constituents
eat ham, sausage, and even fresh pork,
raw, it is apt to prove disastrous on
foreign shores. The spiral worm,
when raised to the 160th degree Far-
enheit), is not dangerous to health.
anu it is urged by some that when well
done he adds to the flavor of pork.
Trichin8 spiralis is a parasite, quies-
cent, encysted, nematoid worm. The
cash subscriber of Opinion is presented
with this definition freely and cheerful
ly, and he is earnestly requested to
paste it in his hat and amuse himself
with it when he is lonely. He may al
SO tie line TO it and fish with it if ne
chooses.
The trichina remains encysted some
times for years He has encysted on
doing this ever since myself and other
scientists discovered him. Why he
should voluntarily continue his career
as nematoid parasite, | cannot at this
moment explain. However, | am still
engaged in my laboratory upon ham
sandwich, and when l get it dissected
will make a fuller report with much
larger words in it than this.
Dresden had eleven trichine epidem-
les from 1860 to 1872, and in 1865, at
Hederslaben. out of 1000 people, 5000
had trichinosis, and 101 died. 1t is
said to be very disagreeable death to
die. Ham sandwiches at railroad eat
ine-houses do not contain trichinp.
There may have been trichine in them
when the sandwiches were new, but
there are none now. Trichina can
stand everything except eternity"
Even the spiral worm must at last
yield to the wheeling cycles of relent-
less years. Put little mustard on a
railroad sandwich, and you can eat it
as safely, so far as trichin9 is concern
ed, as you could slice of old red
sandstone with piece of granite on
each side of it
Man, the pig, the rat, and sometimes
the cat have trichine. 1t is said the
animal is very productive under favor
able circumstances, multiplying and
replenishing the earth to great de-
gree During one week the female
trichina may become the proud moth
er of 1000 little spirals, all twins and
closely resembling each other in form,
feature and general characteristics.
and vet, if one of these little ones gets
stepped on and injured, she mourns
and will not be comforted. even after
5000 other little children have come
to claim a mothers love. She still
grieves for the one that was ruthlessy
squashed.
| will now describe the trichine so
sthat if any reader of this scientific
treatise should meet one on Arapahoe
street he could notify the police.
When the little trichin@ is born into
this world of sin, and before he gets
his eyes open, he is about 1-200ths of
an inch in length, and rather pale,
with sad look in his face. At this
age he should be taken to some seclud-
ed spot and Paris green should be
sprinkled on his or her tail, as the case
may be.
In q week after the birth of the
trichina it may be found some distance
away and quite active. He may be
found when ten days old as far east as
the southeastern parto of the diaphragm
or he may drift northward toward the
liver.
We should learn from this to shun
the first temptation to indulge in the
maddening sausage, for one by one it
will weld its seductive links about you
till at last you are its slave. Let us
take warning from others and flee from
the gilded hells where the sausage is
beld to our lips by fair hands. and
whose beautiful eyes beseech us to eat
of it and die. have eaten sausage
myself, / know, but l have reformed
now. l am no more its slave. | can
pass by sausage now and look at it
sternly in the eve and say, mo, sir,
you are not my meat reck not
whether thou art pork or pet poodle,
thou canst not shake thy CORY locks at
me, thou trysting place of the qnies-
cent, encysted, nematoid parasite. =
Bill Nye, in DeaUer Opinion.