The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-10
DEATH IN THE PORK.
SUFFERING OF A MAN WHO ATE IT
IMPROPERLY COOKED.
he Was Literally Eaten Up-MilHons OF
Minute Worms Destroyed All the Mus
cles in His Body.

cles in His Body.
new YORK, June SO.-JoSeph Palmi,
a iaborer, died at the Bellevue Hospital
Wednesday, of that fortunately rare, but
extremely painful disease, trichinosis.
This disease may be described to the non
technical reader as the propagation and
infinite multiplication of minute living
worms in the muscles Of the entire sys-
tenn. It usually arises from the incau-
tious use of raw or partially cooked
pork.
On last Saturday afternoon the police
summoned an ambulance to No. 40 Null
berry street, to remove a man who was
supposed to be suffering from a severe
attack of inhammatory rheumatism.
DR.. Henderson, the ambulance surgeon,
50 reported the case on his arrival, and
it was thus entered on the books. But
when DR.. D. II. Williams, Jr., proceeded
to examine the patient in his ward, he
could not find any of the customary
symptoms of infammatory rheumatism.
An interpreter was summoned, when
Joseph was closely examined as to his
experiences. He stated that the acute
pains of which he complained had begun
Juue 5, and continued to increase in in
tensity and extent until the ambulance
came for him.
As these pains had first developed in
the stomach and then spread through the
body, DR.. Williams decided that it must
be a case of trichinosis. Palmi at first
denied that he had been eating pork,
but finally admitted that about week
before the pains appeared he had pur-
chased some pigs feet of butcher il
Mulberry street, near his residence. HIS
wife and children had eaten the food
with him.
The man suffered terribly, and the
physician was compelled to administer
opiates, both internally and hypodermi-
cally, to ease the excruciating pam
caused by the myriads of worms invad-
ing every muscle of his writhiDg body.
Though the patient was able to take
slight nourishment he continued to grow
weaker day after day, until death finally
put an end to his suferings.
although l have not yet completed
nv diagnosis" said DR.. Williams yes
terday, II have no doubt that the case
is one of trichiuosiS. Palml acknowl-
edged having eaten pigs feet during the
last week in May, but he must have
eaten other kinds Of pork, for pigs feet
contain very little muscle, being princi-
pally composed of tendons, cartilage and
gelatinouS matter. According to his
statement his wife had slight attack of
abdominal spasms, which are the first
symptoms of the dreadful disease. She,
however, seems to have recovered,
though l should not be surprised If the
woman was brought here in the same
state as her husband was. Trlchinosls
consists of the breeding of minute worms
in the muscles, and they 60 on multi
plying until the entire system is filled
with them.
Being in the muscles of the pork,
which has not been properly cooked
and it must be submitted to heat of
255 degrees to kill the worms-they are
taken into the stomach. Here they
begin increasing and produce the alb
dominal spasmS which are initial symp-
toms; then, following the intestinal
track, they finally pass through the ab-
dominal walls and so enterthe lymphatic
organs. From that moment the patient
is doomed, unless he is so constituted
that his system can resist the trichina
when they become encysted and die. If
they are too strong for resistance they
90 on living in the muscles until the
latter decompose and death ensues very
quickly
tllni1 Tssts Ems, hrfe5t1Eeffr ,rczoI
took piece of muscle from his forearm
and discovered that he had previousl.
suffered from the disease, because Their
were encysted worms visible in it. Afte
he died portions of the muscles IN tn
calf and shoulder were removed
and these we intend examining unde
the microscope just as the portions ar
and then they will be hardened and thel
transverse sections prepared for furthc
oOl GLS1 = ID ilO S&OoHS l14S@S W
diagnosis is the correct one. One OF tn
symptoms is an intense thirst and agoniz
ing pain, both of which were present il
this case. Usually trichinosls is developed
from pork which is eaten raw, and Deo
pie frequently have it who are in tn
habit of eating raw Westphalia ham
and bologna sausage. But pork is no
the only meat which is capable of de
veloping trichina, for they are found il
the muscles of dogs and cats, rats ant
mice, and even moles, all of which ami
mails eat pork. The origin of trichina i
unknown, and they may be inherited TO
all we know"
Palmi came to the United States il
1885, and he was "a years Of age. Hi
wife is also native of Italy, and the.
had three children. No. 40 Mulberr.
street is one of the many denSely popu
lated tenements in that overcrowdet
and filthy district of the city. When in
quiry was made in the neighborhood re
garding the identity of the butcher who
sold the diseased food to the Palm
family, the occupants manifested ex
IRENE reticence and refused to give any
information. So far as could be learned
the children of Pamli have not suffered
any of the symptoms which were deycl
oped by the father, and Mrs. Paml
seemed 70 be in good health, though in
terrible grief over the death of her hus
band The surroundings were, how
ever, so filthy and the manner Of living
among the occupants Of the house Sc
wretched, it is no wonder that diseases
of all kinds should generate among
them.
EOYT'S haul.