p. 16 | Deliver us from Pork by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1866

Deliver us from Pork.

By Editor

If any think that the light has come forth any too soon on the subject of pork eating, or that any too much is being made of it, we commend to them a careful consideration of the following startling facts, the statement of which we have just received from Bro. D. T. Shireman of Marion, Iowa.

"I wish to say that the pork disease is in our city. Some have died, and others are in a situation that they cannot recover. The circumstances are these: A family residing in this place had two hams brought to them by some of their own relatives, about the first of May.

Some time after a number of the family were taken sick. Last Friday, the 2nd day of June, one child, 11 years old, died; and Sabbath the 3rd, a young man about 23 years old died, both suffering dreadfully. At the present the father and one child are alive, but cannot live long. The mother and one child, and a son, a young man, are very poorly. I understand that some others have been afflicted with the same disease. On examination of some of the flesh of the first boy that died, they estimated that there were about two hundred and sixty thousand of the trichina in a cubic inch.