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Poisoned Pork

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 26, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 22.

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Poisoned Pork.

A few months since, a hundred persons sat down at a festive celebration in the Harts mountains, where pork in various forms was the principal food. Of these, eighty persons are in their graves, and of the remainder, the majority linger with a fearful malady. This strange event has led to the discovery that this food was charged with flesh worms in all stages of development, or trichina, found in the muscular tissues of the survivors and traced to the pork. These flesh worms are not killed by ordinary cooking, and multiply rapidly by thousands. A great alarm exists in Germany, and the eating of pork in many places is entirely abandoned.