The San Francisco call., 1899-12-03
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s Discovery
IN the
Gases 81
Two
SaH FFarcisco
Patierts
cf the Greatest
IrnpoYEsnce IS
The MEDICAL
WcpI5.

N BIS IS the man who ate the pig
that ate the rat that came In the
ship from Asia That is about the
Ray the story goes.
A IN The gray rat from Asia there
were tn i.hira spiralis and like everything
else that comes from Asia-well, it's
Asiaric and hard 10 get rid Of.
Tea comes from Asia. and coffee and
or nm. and hasheesh. Buddhism and No
llmrlcdauism.
T-lcEira seems 20 have come originally
from Asia. and through the rat and the
hog spread all over the Western world.
even 40 san Francisco.
Two young girls. graduates OF the med
seal department OF The university, have
found that rare disease. trichiniasis. In
tvo san Francisco patients Rt the City
and County Hospital-found Il by a meth
Od more rare than the disease.
As FAR as reported there are but four
cases recorded where the presence OF
tr.chinae 81 a human being has been DIS
covered by means o. microscopic exam
iIstiou ~ TIE blood alone. Three OF those
cases ~ere in the medical department of
Johns Hopkins. and al are recent
Tie rriohina is a little boring worm
un'-r lives mostly IN the flesh OF rats and
rabbits. P.gs eat the rats. the trichina
bores through the walls OF the intestines
fU-tcted. Then Nr. Spiraiis curls himself
or herself into a comfortable ball ard
goes into "a period of Information. which
last- lrtu he and he flesh in which he is
are eaten by something. then he proceeds
20 bore lls way through IS before, and so
to sleep to wake again ten wears after. II
need ha to repeat the process.
when charles JOY. a teamster. who ate
at ca cheap restaurant. first felt his i'll
st0r. a hurt Dis back and muscles nurt
vtta . str1nSe frightful pain that dIove
tl. irs,n.uEe'y 10 the shetering care
pt t'- hospital
when ae got there he had fever and the
symptoms 1fat nttcd SO easily any one
Cf thousand diseases. This case. sup
po-.HlE O. rphoi3 or some other kind Of
to>-r. came urarr the care OF Mss
Rachel Ash and Miss Emma Wightmdn.
"Ilr. Ash and Dr. Wightman.' II must
he sUi. trr ;hat IS the proud title that
la- eosl rn,m many years OF work and
study to earn. and they deserve Il.
N-h them t was quick work. A fever
patient is like "a house on lre-something
- burning. damage is doing-where is the
free Ana this is the way that brunette
Ir. Ash aId blonde Dr. Wightman eX-
plain bow they came 10 trail irichinB TO
bis air
A r worked by eNciuslon-that Is, we
found oat what was not the matter with
tae patlear. and by casting out OF the Nst
of possibilities al last came 20 the point
Where tuchr.asis was the only thing ieft
t.ar could De the trouble: then a cross
section ~ The muscle placed under the
m.cr scope found Il so.
''Tho ear of the patient was pierced
.-l-ly ana "a drop az blood was obtalred.
The ear. sou know. IS not affected any
morc than any other part. but the blood
is pumped On heart 20 finger tips and
uaca in twenty seconds or less for the
round frip. so sou see II is well mixed
ana sampie from any part is a fair sam
b., nt tae whole.
"Ths drop ~ blood placed under tho
microscope showed "a large Increase * all
90 ihe white corpLscies and particularly
~ one certain kind which IS always
q sorf - alarm leil Tor any one Of seyel al
do1oa diseases.
$50 Gar then-we knew that the patient
had one 90 those diseases-then came the
castirg-out process. The first disease on
tEe lst hal other symptoms besides the
increase 30 the certain kiad Of white
blood co-puscles. but the patient had not