The Wilmingtonian., 1886-11-06
Pork as Food.
THE TWO PARASITIC EVILS DEVELOPED IN
TILE TISSUE OF HOGS.


TILE TISSUE OF HOGS.
The prejudice against the flesh of swine as
human food is as old as history. II it has
any foundation in nature besides the filthy
manner in which the hog is generally kept,
it is because the hog is more subject to uis-
ease, or at least to certain class of Diseases
than other domestic animals. It's omnivol-
GUS appetite makes it liable to certain dis
eases from which the exclusively vegetable
eating animals are comparatively, if not en-
tirely, exempt.
The two evils most complained of are tare-
worm and trichina-both parasite. Both OF
these are developed in tue animal tissues,
and it is very doubtful if they ever aff ami
mails that do not eat animal food, OF in some
way get animal products into their stomachs
and intestinal canals.
The tape-worm, when encysted in the tiss.
ues of the hog, has the name Of measles
| though wholly unlike measles in the human
| Species-the pork containing these encysted
worms is known as 'measley pork" When
taken into the human stomach, they are liza.
/
some creature known as tape-worm. This il
not necessarily fatal, but very annoying. Il
modern times, it is successfully removed by
the skilliul physician without pain ur njur,
TO the patient.
Trichiua is a parasite much more to be
dreaded even than the tape worm. 1t is liza
BILE to infect the human system in such num-
bers as rot only to be very painful, but fatal,
and we believe there is no known remedy.
1t is encysted in the flesh of the animal, in d
dormant state, like the tape-worm. When
the trichna enters the human stomach, il
attaches itself to the mucous membrane and
there awakens to all the activity of breeding
thousands, if not millions, of its kind. tt ese
yonng trichina at once start out to find a
place in which to encyst themselves for o
dormant rest and await a resurrection by
having the flesh in which they are imbedded
eaten by some animal, brute orhuman, when
they will repeat the roll of their progenitors
1t is when passing from the stomach and
intestines to the muscles that the tlichna
give such pain, and frequently cause death
Pushing their way through the tissues, they
cause great irritation and Inflammation, re.
sulting in death when the effects become TN
endurable. While in this active state oil mi
! grafton, seeking home, they are as liable t,
be found in one class of TISSUES as in another
Hence, lard that has not been exposed to
heat of at least 2l2 degress Fahrenheit il
, just as likely to contain them, if the anma
was killed when the trchna were in a stat,
. of activity, as in any other part or produc
: Of the hog.
The only way to avoid the evil and suffer
ing from tape-worms and trichina is to eithe
wholly abstain from eating pork, or to b.
sure that is thoroughly cooked so as destro,
! the vitality Of the encysted parasite. Th
. muscle of the hog makes exceedingly pala
/ table food, and many enjoy eating the fat
Z In spite of all the terrors and draw backs
: pork is common and popular article o
d food So long as animal flesh continues t.
! be eaten by man, we presume pork will b
4 eaten. As there is no cure for one of th
d diseases impaired by it, the safety of th
a public health demands that hogs be kept il
Ii "a cleanIy manner fed only vegetable foo
e and such animal products as belong to til
I dairy, and that the meat--of all kinds, as fo
: that rhatter-shaii be sufficiently cooked t
5 destroy all animal life. Nothing less tina
subjecting every particle of it to heat of a
g least 2l2 degrees will do it National Live
d Stock Journal.