Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17
Beet Trust Patrons Have a Chance to
Get All They Want
of It.
The Real Cause of the Disease Is
Bad Meat Beyond
Doubt.

ease.
1t comes from the breakfast delica.
cics made out of Gamer cows ami
trichina pork.
The Trust sausage Is one of the won.
dcrs 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
Il horrible connection known to the
trade as potato flour, this chopped.
stamped. crushed and chemically treat.
| ell meat is stuffed into the frequently
diseased CUTS of dead animals aud ~
sold 10 the public us sausage.
Despite the chemicals compounded
with the meat TO make 1t smell
natural" both the compound itself.
Us well as the casing" us the gut Is
now called. are frequently the abode
of Heterogeneous.
Ii is these micro. organisms that
cause appendicitis.
The word appendicitis means an in.
ilammation of the vcrmiform appendix,
which lies in the lower right hand cor
ncr of the abdomen.
The vcrmiform appendix Is II sack
attached TO the intestine.
1t is into this resting place that the
microbes crawl and cause trouble.
The real trichna microbc, which Is
| very abundant In pork, and for which
| IL La A,
eats through all the human intcstncs,
and. playing no favoritcs, Is always
! fatal.
But the bad meat microbc, which
causes appendicitis, has not strength
enough TO bore through the intestncS.
Ii merely crawls into the first aud
only stopping place In the bowcls--thc
ycrmitorm appcndiX-and there II
works away until 1t starts inilamma.
ton.
When the first physicians began 10
realize the Geological Importance OF
the appendix in intestinal inilamma'
ton 1t was thought that seeds or 9th
or offending material became lodged
therein, but many operations soon
proved the contrary, for ofttimes no
foreign bodies were found In 1t, AMI
other abdominal operations often show
cd collections In the appendix that had
caused no trouble.
Most of the best physicians and the
ablcst surgeons are now convinced that
appendicitis Is caused by bad meat.
The disease, singulnrly enough, was
never heard of until Beef Trust meth
obs began to prevail In this country
and now II Is to be found whcrcvc!
Beef Trus; products have sale.
According TO the United States cen
sus. 5,lll persons died from append
citls In 1900. The disease was not even
mentioned In the United States ccnsu'
report of ls90--tcn years beforc-be
cause there were no cases ana nC
deaths. How Is that for the work OF
the Beef Trust;
.AS%A
Now the city inspection has beer
stopped and that 1t WAS always tn
habit to use the carcases of cancerou
or lumpy jawcd cattle after the can
ccrs were cut out, the public Is prob
ably getting u fuller dose of lump,
jawel cattle for food than ever. o.
the very day that the city discontinue,
It's inspection and condemnation, tin
Commissioner of Health of Chicago Is
sued the following remarkable instruc
lions in his bulletin of December ~
1905:
"rhe Commissioner has issued tin
following instructions to the chief IN
spcctor ut the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycOsis Is usuall
confined to the head, and may be salt
in one sense to be Il localized disease
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, l believe 1t !
safest and most practicable to condemn
the entire carcass wherever the act
nOmycotc abscess opens into tn
mouth, pharynX, larynX or any part o
the digestive or respiratory tract; a
when the Emphatic glands are invol>
ed; or where there are actinomycOti
tumors in the lungs; or when the Il
! slons have become generalized, Sine
; generalization in actinomycosis appear
to run Il very atypic course, maxim
the detection of all fOci inside til
. muscle very difficult; therefore, the Ell
, tire carcass Is to be condemned.
In cases where the actinomycotl
LESSONS are positively localized, the il
- iccted part may be cut away and til
: remains of the carcass used.
"'lhese instructions apply only I
: "humpy jaw" There may be othc
+ reasons why you should want to col
@ denim II carcass, and it Is then Il ma
-. ter Of judgment for you ana your mel
/ But you should never hesitate to col
/. denim If you believe the animal to b
not fit for human food"
ESS
The spirits of thousands of poe
, boys who went out to fight for til
United States in the Spanish-Amer
can war, must hover over the fortune
/. of the Beef Trust in a demand f0
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