Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-12-06

suDJecI 10 ulSease, and are too otter
slaughtered and consumed in an un
healthy condition. Thus we take into oul
stomachs pork with all its impurities
which sometimes poison our blood and
renders us sufferers the balance of oul
lives. Under the head of Diseased
Pork" we made the following extract
from an article in the Southern Trade
Gazette, which will give the reader
some idea OF the danger to which the
liberal consumers of pork are liable.
The extract reads thus:
"Of the thirty-one distinct species Of
parasites that cause such woe to man.
kind, twenty-three are directly tracea.
BILE to. the food we eat, and two-thirls Of
these are the result of pork alone, so Of
all these intestinal parasites the hog is
responsible by large majority. Tri.
china spiralis at the present time is at.
tracing the greatest attention, mas
much as one of the great sources of
Americas wealth and income depends
in no mean degree upon the presence
or absence of this terrible parasite in
our pork when it reaches foreign shores.
Again, this animal has been recognized
as the cause of a disease which has ex.
listed for ages, but heretofore has been
enormously COMPOUNDED with others
having like or similar symptoms. Like
the majority of parasites it is intro
duced into the system by eating flesh
pork containing its larvae, and in so
far as we have been able to determine
the hog derives the parasite from the
vermin devoured by it, for we have
found by rigorous research that what
is known by one name in a certain an
imal undergoes complete transforma-
ton when devoured by another, thus
the cySticercus farceolaris of the mouse
becomes the leniG crassicoIh8 of the cat,
which in turn becomes the tridhn,a
8pirali8 of the hog, and so on to the
end Of the chapter.
These parasites are really a wonder
of themselves. The first symptoms of
their presence in pork is gritty like
feeling of the muscular parts of the an
imal when dressed and the meat ex,
posed for sale, these characteristic
specsentozoon are often found in the
human subject when measles, scarlet
fever, and the like have caused death.
The immature parasites as seen in
sample of pork under the microscope,
are very much like worms 004inch
long, spirally coiled up within gobular,
oval, or lemon shaped transparent
cysts, which in proportion to the length
of time they have been formed are
more Or less covered with calcareous
matter. These cysts, however, are to
be considered as ALTERNATIVES, devel.
oped some little time after the larvae
have reached their destination, as we
have seen myriads co-exist without
these cysts.
A sample of pork from an animal
bred and reared amid the garbage and
filth of the "bottoms" along the Ohio
was eaten at hotel in Louisville with
disastrous results; thirteen were sick,
and some died from the effects, as they
happened to get piece containing pa
rasites in more advanced stage of |
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The number of parasites of course
varies, but in an ounce of flesh now
being examined careful estimate by
the relative space occupied by each
places the number more than 100000. |
then assuming that an ordinary hog
has one hundred pounds of muscle, it
would be infested with more than CO.,
600, 900, each mature one of which is
capable of injecting man via the stom.
ach, to such an extent that he will be
literally alive with them.
Viewed from their sexual standpoint
the mature male is 1'19 OF an inch in
length, while the adult female is over
twice as long. The body is roundish,
slender, and the head very narrow
with sharp point. The mode of re.
production is viviparous.
This muscular parasite, when intro.