Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-31
Beet Trust Patrons Have a Chance to
Get All They Want
Of Il.
The Real Cause of the Disease Is
Bad Meat Beyond
Doubt.

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It comes from tho breakfast delica.
cies made out Of canner cows and
trichina pork.
The Trust sausage IL one Of the won.
ders Of creation.
1t IL 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 -four, this chopped,
stamped, crushed and chemically treat.
ed meat Is stuffed into the frequently
diseased CUTS Of dead animals aud n
sold to the public as sausage.
Despite the chemicals compounded
with the "meat" to make It smell
natural" both the compound itself,
a. well as the casing" as the gut Is
now called, are frequently the abode
Of micr0-0rganisms.
1t 10 these mlcro-organlsm that
cause appendicitis.
The word appendicitis means an In.
Illumination Of the vermiform appendix,
which lies In the lower right hand cor.
ner Of the abdomen.
The vermiform appendix 10 q sack
attached to the intestine.
1t II into this resting place that the
microbes crawl aud cause trouble.
The real trlchina 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, II always
fatal.
hut the bad meat microbe. which
causes appendicitis, has not strength
enough to bore through the intestines.
1t merely crawls into the Arst and
only stopping place In the bowels-the
vermif0rm appendix-and there II
works away until It starts indamma.
tion.
When the arst physicians began to
realize tho Geological Importance Of
the appendix In Intestinal inhamma'
tIon, 1t was thought that seeds or 9th.
er offending material became lodged
therein, but many operations soon
proved the contrary, for Outlines no
foreign bodies were found In It, and
other abdominal operations often show.
ed collections In the appendix that had
caused no trouble.
Most Of the best physicians and the
ablest surgeons are now convinced that
appendicitis 10 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 ID to DO found wherever
Beef Trust products have SALE.
According to the United States cen
sus. 5,11l persons died from append
citis III 1900. The disease was not even
mentioned In the United States census
report OF 1S0O-ten years bef0re-be'
cause there were no cases and no
deaths. How 10 that for the work o!
the Beef Trust?
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Now the city inspection has been
stopped and that 1t was always the
habit to use the carcases Of cancer0ui
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. Or
the very day that the city discontinued
it, inspection and condemnation. th<
Commissioner Of Health Of Chicago 10
sued the following remarkable instruc
lions In bis bulletin Of December 30
1906:
1.-THE Commissioner has issued th<
following instructions to the chief In
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'Whils actinomycosis 70 usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to be q localissd disease
and while some inspectors condemI
only the part involved, ! believe It Il
safest and most practicable to condemn
the entire carcass wherever the acti
nomycotic abscess opens into tn,
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part o.
the digestive or respiratory tract; o
when the Emphatic glands are involN
ed; or where there are actinomycotl'
tumors In the lungs; or when the le
sions have become seneralixed. sine
generalization In actinomycosis appear
to run . very atypic course. making
the detection Of all foci inside th'
muscle very dinicult; therefore. the "a
tire carcass 10 to be condemned.
"Iu cases whore the actinomycoti'
LESSONS are positively localissd, the In
fected part may b cut away and tn
remains Of the carcass used.
".rhsse instructions apply only h
"lumpy Jaw" There may be Other
reasons why you should want 70 con
denim q carcass. and II 70 then q mat
ter OF judgment for you and your men
But you should never hesitate to con
denim II you believe the animal to b.
not At for human food"
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The spirits Of Thousands Of poo
boys who went out to fight for thu
United States In the spanish,Ameri
can war. must hover over the FORTUNES
OF the Bret Trust In Q demand To-
vengeance
These thousands were killed By tn
! "smbalmed hest" Of the Beet Trus