Entertaining for Pork-Eaters.—
The newspapers are full of accounts of terrible deaths from trichinosis, that horrible disease which is the result of eating pork containing trichinæ. Several cases were recently reported in Indianapolis. A physician from Kankakee, Ill., informs us that there were twenty-three cases in that city last season. It is of no use for pork-lovers to console themselves with the thought that sufficient heat will destroy the parasite, for the methods of cooking employed are seldom effective. The worms will stand a much higher degree of heat than is commonly supposed. Ordinary broiling will not kill them. But if they are killed, what a pleasant thought it must be for one to reflect that he is eating fried or boiled worms, vermin, loathsome parasites! From the great increase of cases of poisoning by trichinæ, and from the researches of scientific men, it has become evident that the disease is rapidly increasing among swine, and that it is highly dangerous to use pork in any form. A person may get a few worms into his system, which will occasion what he thinks to be a slight attack of rheumatism or diarrhœa, little thinking that his muscles are swarming with parasites, or that his intestines are being riddled with worm holes.—Reformer.