Trichina: Warning Against Eating Pork
By Joseph G. Wood
PORK-EATERS should be on their guard. Mr. Fred. Richards killed a large, fat hog, on Tuesday last, and hung it out over night. On examining it next morning, he found that the carcass was literally full of worms, supposed to be the Trichina Spiralis, which has been so destructive to pork eaters of late years. Some of them had worked their way through the skin. Dr. Dunn had no microscope to make a minute examination of the specimens brought in by Mr. Richards, but has no doubt that it is the real Trichina. I CLIP the above from the South-west Missourian of March 13, our county paper, printed at Lamar, Mo. Dr. Dunn, who made the examination, is one of the leading Physicians of Lamar. How long will people persist in the use of pork? Is it not strange, indeed, that they will let appetite rule their better judgment in this matter? especially that any who have received so much light on its diseased condition as the Seventh-day Adventists have, should do so? Quite likely had this been packed away as soon as dressed, the worms would never have been discovered, and it would have been taken into the stomach as food, worms and all, with a good relish. Joseph G. Wood.