New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-07-16
A Thoughtful Treatise.

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Having been frequently urged to
give my views upon the matter Of tri-
chinosis, and having repeatedly excused
myself heretofore in all cases, it may
be we'll to briefly touch upon the sub
ject in the interest of scientific and
perhaps international progress.
II the American hog is invested with
trichin@ spiralis, I, for one. do not IA
vor his use as an international bever-
age. Here and in Boston, where the
American hog is largely cooked with
the baked ns-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 16Oth degree Gar
enheit), is not dangerous to health,
and it is urged by some that when we'll
done he adds to the flavor of pork.
Trichin@ spiralis is a parasite, quies-
cent, encysted, nematoid worm. Tho
cash subscriber of Opinion is presented
with this definition freely and cheerful
", 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 he
chooses.
The trichinm 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, I cannot at this
moment explain. However, am still
engaged in my laboratory upon ham
sandwich, and when get It dissected
I will make fuller report, with much
larger words in it than this.
Dresden had eleven trichin@ epidem-
les from 1860 to 1872, and in 1866. at
Hederslaben, out Of 1000 people, 5000
had trichinosis. and 1O1 died. It is
said to be q very disagreeable death to
die. Ham sandwiches ct railroad eat
ing-houses do not contain trichinm.
There may have been trichinB in them
when the sandwiches were new, but
there ore none now. Trichin@ 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 q
railroad sandwich, and you can eat it
as safely, SO far as trichin@ is concern
ed, as you could a slice of old red
sandstone with piece of granite on
each side of it.
Man, the pig, the rat, and sometimes
the cat have trichin@. 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
trichin@ may become the proud moth
er of 1000 little spirals, all twins and
closely resembling each other in form,
feature and general characteristics,
and yet, if one of these little ones gets
stepped on and injured, she mourns
and will not be comforted, even after
JIG, 600 other little children have come
to claim mothers love. She still
grieves for the one that was ruthlesslY
squashed.
will now describe the trichinm so
that 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 1-20Oths of
an inch in length, and rather pale.
with a 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 week after the birth of the
trichins it may be found some distance
away and quite active. He may be
found when ten days old as far east as
the southeastern part 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 bells where the sausage is
held to our lips by fair hands. and
whose beautiful eyes beseech us to eat
Of it and die. I have eaten sausage
myself, I know, but I have reformed
now. am no more its slave. I can
pass by . sausage now and look at it
sternly in the eye and say, mo. sir,
you are not my meat I reck not
whether thou art pork or pet poodle.
thou canst not shake thy CORY locks at
me, thou trysting place. Of the quies-
cent, encysted; nematoid parasite. -
Blu Nye. IN DenUeT Opinion.
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