Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-24

ease.
1t comes from the breakfast delica.
cies 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
a horrible connection known to the
trade as potato flour, this chopped,
stamped, crushed and chemically treat.
cd meat Is stuffed into the frequently
diseased CUTS Of dead animals and Il
sold to the public as sausage.
Despite the chemicals compounded
with the meat to make 1t smell
natural" both the compound itself,
as we'll us the casing" as the gut IL
now called, are frequently the abode
of heterogeneous.
1t is these organisms that
cause appendicitis.
The word appendicitis means an in
flammation Of tho vermiform appendix,
which lies In the lower right hand cor.
ncr of the abdomen.
The vcrmiform appendix Is sack
attached to the intestine.
1t Is into this resting place that the
microbes crawl and cause trouble.
The real trlchina microbe, which Is
very abundant In pork, and for which
no search Is made by the Beef Trust,
eats through all the human intcstines,
and, playing no favOritcs, Is always
fatal.
But the bad meat mlcrobe, which
causes appendicitis, has not strength
enough to bore through the intestines.
1t merely crawls into the ilrst and
only stopping place In the bowels-thc
vcrmlfOrm appendlx-and there 1t
works away until 1t starts intiamma.
tion.
When the first physicians began to
realize the Geological Importance Of
the appendix In intestinal inhamma.
tlon, 1t 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
cd collections IL t.' nppendix that had
caused no trouble.
Most Of the best physicians and the
ablcst surgeons are now convinced that
appendicitis Is caused by bad meat.
Tho disease, singularly enough, was
never heard of until Beef Trust meth
DDS began to prevail In this country
and now 1t Is to be found wherever
Beef Trust products have SALE.
According to the United States cen
sus. 5,1l1 persons died from appendl'
cltis In 1000. The disease was not even
mentioned In the United States census
report of 1S0O-tcn years befOre--be
cause there were no cases and nc
deaths. How Is that for the work OF
the Beef Trust?
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Now the city inspection has beer
stopped ana that 1t was always thu
habit to use the carcases Of cancerOu'
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can
GERS were cut out, tho public Is prob
ably getting fuller dose Of lumpy
jawed cattle for food than ever. o.
the very day that the city discontinued
Its inspection and condemnation, thu
Commissioner OF Health OF Chicago IL
. sued tho following remarkable instruc
lions In his bulletin Of December 30
1905:
!, "The Commissioner has issued tin
: following instructions to the chief In
t spector ut the Union Stock Yards:
; "'While actinomycosis IL usual!
? confined to the head, and may be salt
In one sense to DO localized disease
and while some inspectors condemn
I only the part involved, I believe 1t !
!. safest and most practicable to condemn
|. the entire carcass wherever the actl
nOnycotlc abscess opens into til
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part o
the digestive or respiratory tract; O
= when the lymphatlc glands are invOl>
ed; or where there are actln0myc0tl
tumors In the lungs; or when the Il
n sions have become generalized. sine
@ generalization In actinOmycOsis appear
to run a very atypic course, maxim
the detection Of all fool inside til
O muscle very difficult; therefore, tho O.
v tire carcass Ia to DO condemned.
"In cases where the actin0mycoti
LESSONS are positively localized, the II
I. fected part may be cut away and til
Is remains OF the carcass used.
t. "These instructions apply only {
IS "lumpy jaw" There may be Othe
n reasons why you should want to col
|e denim carcass, and 1t IL then q MAJ
=. ter Of judgment for you and your incl
Il But you should never hesitate to col
:. denim II you believe the animal to b
not Ut for human food"
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9 The spirits OF thousands Of poo
o boys who went out to fight for til
United States In the Spanish'Amer
can war, must hover over the fortune
{. Of the 81 Vt Trust In q demand 70
% vengeance
}. These thousands were killed by th