Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

cles made out Of Gamer cows and
trichina pork.
The Trust sausage is one Of the won.
ders Of creation.
1t Is made out Of the cheapest meat
and the trimming Of Gamers, lumpy-
jaw cattle and dead swine.
After being thoroughly mixed with
horrible connection known to the
trade as potato -four, this chopped,
stamped, crushed and chemically treat.
cd meat il stuffed into the frequently
diseased CUTS Of dead animals aud IA
sold to the public as sausage.
Despite the chemicals compounded
with the "meat' to make 1t smell
natural" both the compound itself,
as well as the casing" as the gut Is
now called, are frequently the abode
Of icro.organisms.
1t IL these micro.organlsm that
cause appendicitis.
The word appendicitis means an in.
fammation 0f.the vermiform appendix,
which lies In the lower right hand cor.
ner Of the abdomen.
The vermiform appendix IL sack
attached to the intestine.
1t IL into this resting place that the
microbes crawl and cause trouble.
The real trichlna microbe, which IL
very abundant In pork, and for which
no search ID made by the Beef Trust,
eats through oil the human intestiues,
and, playing NO favorites, IL always
fatal.
But the bad meat microbc, which
causes appendicitis, has not strength
enough to bore through the intestines.
It merely crawls into the Arst and
only stopping place In the bowels-the
vermiform appeudix-and there 1t
works away until 1t starts inflamma.
ti0n.
when the first physicians began to
realize the Geological importance Of
tho appendix In intestinal inhamma.
ton, It was thought that seeds or 9th.
or offending material became lodged
therein, but many operations soon
proved the contrary, for Outlines no
foreign bodies were found in 1t, and
other abdominal operations often show.
eli collections In the appendix that had
caused no trouble.
Most Of the best physicians and tho
ablest surgeons are now convinced that
appendicitis IL caused by bad meat.
The disease, singularly enough. was
never heard Of until Beef Trust meth.
DDS began to prevail In this country.
and now 1t IL to DO found wherever
Beef Trust products have a sale..
According to the United States cen.
sus. 5.111 persons died from append.
citis In 1900. The disease was not even
mentioned In the United States census
report Of 1S0O--ten years before-be-
cause there were no cases and no
deaths. How IL that for the work Of
the Beef Trustg
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Now tho city inspection has been
stopped and that 1t was always the
habit to use the carcases Of cancerOus
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can.
GERS were cut out, the public Ii prob
ably getting q fuller dose Of lumpy
jawed cattle for food than ever. On
the very day that the city discontinued
Its inspection and condemnation, the
Commissioner Of Health Of Chicago Is.
sued the following remarkable instruc.
lions In bis bulletin Of December 30,
1906:
"The Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief In
spectOr ut the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycosis il usually
confined to the head. and may be said
In one sense to be q localized disease,
and while some inspectors condemn,
only the part involved, believe 1t ID
safest and most practicable to condemn
the entire carcass wherever the acti'
nOmyc0tic abscess opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part OF
the digestive or respiratory tract; a
when the lymphatic glands are invoN
ed; or where there are electromagnetic
tumors In the lungs; or when the 10
si0ns have become generalixed. since
generalization In actin0myc0sis appears
to run very atypic course, making
the detection Of all f0ci inside the
muscle very difficult; therefore, the en-
tire carcass Ia to be condemned.
"In cases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In
fected part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass used.
""rhese instructions apply only To
''lumpy jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con.
denim carcass. and 1t 10 then a mat.
ter Of judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate to con.
denim II you believe the animal to be
not at for human food.'"
The spirits OF thousands OF poor
boys who went out to fight for the
United States In the Epanish.Amerl.
can war. must hover over the fortunes
Of the Beef Trust In q demand for
/ vengeance!
These Thousands were killed BY the
'"embalmed beet" Of the Beef Trust