The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-21
A THOUGHTFUL TREATISE.
H:. Nye, in Denver Opinion. ]

e:.i Aye, in Denver Opinion. Having been frequently urged to give my views upon the matter of trichinosis, and having repeatedly excused myself heretofore in all eases, it may be well to briefly touch upon tho subject in the in- terests of scientific and perhaps inter-
 national progress.
 If the American hog is invested with trichin9 spiralis, 1, for one, do not favor
 his use as an international beverage
 Here and in Boston, where the American
 hog is largely cooked with the baked
 bean which acts as an antidote to the
 spiral worm of commerce-the danger is slight, but when we consider that Bis
 marck'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 Tooth de- gree (Fahrenheit), is not dangerous to health, aud 1t is urged by some that when well done he adds to the flavor of pork.
 Tr.chira spiralis is a parasite, quies- cent, encysted, nematoid worm. The cash subscriber of Opinion is presented with this definition freely and cheerfully, and he is earnestly requested to paste it in his hat and amuse himself with it when he is lonely. He may also tie lire to it and fish with it if he chooses.
 The tnchir4 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, can not at this mo- ment explain. However, l am still en- gagged in my laboratory upon a ham sandwich, and when 1 get it dissected will make a fuller report, with much larger words in it than this.
 Dresden had eleven trichipe epidemics from 1860 to 1872, and in 1865, at Heders- leben, out of 900 people, 300 had trich- inosis, and TOT died. It IS said to be a very disagreeable death to die. Ham sandwiches at railroad eating houses do not contain trichin;c There may have been trichina in them when the sand wiches were new, but there are none now. Trichine can stand everything except eternity. Even the spiral worm must at last yield to the wheeling cycles of re- lentless years. Put a little mustard on railroad sandwich, and you can eat it as safely, so faf as trichine is concerned, as you could a slice of old red sand stone with a piece ot granite oa each side of it.
 Man, the pig. the rat, and sometimes the cat, have trichine It has also an- noyed the democratic party some during the past twenty-four years. The animal is very productive under favorable cir cumstances, multiplying and replenishing the earth to a great degree During one week the female irichinse may become the proud mother of :, 900 little spirals, all twins and closely resembling each other in form, feature and general char acteristics. And yet, if one of these little ones gets stepped on and injured, she mourns and will not be comforted, even after f6 900 other little cunning children have come to claim a mothers love. She still grieves for the one that was ruthlessly squashed.
 ~lll now describe the trichiu.c so that if any reader of this scientific treatise should meet one on Arapahoe street he could notify the police.
 When the little trichinse is born into this world of sin. and before he get his eyes open, he is about I-7ooths of an inch in length. and rather pale, with sad look in his face. At this age he should be taken to some secluded spot and Paris green should be spriAkled on his or her tail, as the case may be.
 ln week alter the birth of the trichine 1t may be found some distance away and quite active. He may be found when ten days old as far east as the sou,h- eastern part of the diaphragm, or he may drift north toward the liver. N.
 We should learn trom this to shun the first temptation to indulge in the mad dening sausage, for one by one it will weld its seductive links about you till at last you are its slave. Let us take warn- ing from others and flee from the gilded helis where the sausage is held to our lips by fair hands, and whose beautiful eyes beseech us to eat of it and die. 1 have eaten sausage rnyself know, but have reformed now. l am no more its slave. can pass by a sausage now and look at it sternly in the eye and say, {" No. sir, you are not my meat. 1 reck not whether thou art pork or pet poodle, thou canst not shake thy gory locks at me, thou trysting place of the quiescent, encysted, nematoid parasite"