Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-04-25
SUFFERS FROM
INCURABLE DISEASE
Psyette Man Contracts Trichiniasis
by Eating Pork Not Well Cooked
His Recovery Very Uncertain
Some PecuIiarities of This Dread
Disease.

disease.
Lee Connerly was taken i'll some
time ago with what he thought
was rheumatism; the symptoms be
ing very similar, but which on in
yestigation and careful examination
by a physician in Payette revealed
the fact that he was afflicted with
| Trichiniasis, a disease which is the
result of the minute parasites. Trichi
nae SpiraIis which he has undoubted-
ly got into his system by eating raw
or insufficiently cooked pork.
His condition the past few hours
has been very critical although hop
es for his recovery have not yet
been given up. The disease is a
dangerous one, the mortality reach
ing a high percentage. Connerly
thinks he got infected at a res au-
rant in Ontario where he ate some
pork sausage which was probably not
cooked sufficiently done, few
weeks ago.
Should he be fortunate enough
to recover he is to be congratulated
upon his escape and his experience
should be a warning to all agains.
the dangers Of eating raw pork.
IS a matter OF fact no meat should
be eaten raw by human beings. Any
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parasites which may do one great
harm. OF the meats eaten by hC-
mans, pork is the only means OF
conveying the trichinae to the hu-
man system. An infaIlible safeguard
is to cook the meat wlel dOne-take
no chances.
The trichinae can only enter the
human system by being taken into
the intestinal tract with food that
is eaten. Once in the intestines
they Immediately commence the work
of propagating and millions of hair
like worms, scarcely visible to the
unaided eye, are hatched out. These
minute parasites bore through the
mucous coat of the intestines, en-
ter the circulation and are carried 20
all parts Of he body. They bore
into the muscular tissues and set
I'D morbid action in the system and
disorganize the surrounding tissues.
The disturbance of the system is at
tended with rheumatic symptoms and
great exhaustion. Sometimes pneu-
monia follows; due, no doubt, to the
and debllitated condition OF
the system.
A popularity of these parasites is
the fact that they will, after boring
into the muscular tissues of a human
being. become quiescent and en-
cvsted with an outer layer of cal |
careous or chalky matter and re-
main indefinitely in the body, but /
If released at any time within the 4
tract will commence to !
reproduce themselves by the mil
ions and will reach every muscular
tissue in the body-eyen the eyes
are sometimes the seat Of location
Trichinae IS thought to have orig
mated in rats and been eommunieat-
ID to swine. They were discovered
IN pork by Joseph Leidy. The encap-
;ulated cyst surrounding the Trich-
nae is seldom found in hogs. For
hat reason its presence cannot be
detected in pork with the unaided
we Statistics show that about
.wo per cent of the bodies dissect-
d at medical colleges are found with
.riehinae cysts which indicates the
disease to be not so rare as sup
POSED by many.
The calcareous cysts in the human
,ody is probably caused by the dis
,rganization of the tissues and prob
.blv also seals up the spiral like
worm and prevents him from doing
'urther harm.