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Do Trichinae Produce Hog Cholera?

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dr. Commons, at the last meeting of the Indiana State Medical Society, read a, paper on hog cholera as the result of trichinae present in the animal. He did not claim this theory as a demonstrated fact, but having made the subject a special study, he feit convinced of its correctness. In every case of dissection after death by cholera he had found intestinal trichinio, and the conclusión reached was that the disease was a result of their presence. The intestinal trichiníe are the progenitors of, and are much larger than, the tricitim spiralis which penétrate the walls of the stomach and eventually flnd lodgement in the inuscles. Henee it is that the flesh of a hog sick with cholera may be eaten and the contraction of tnchinosis avoided, while, at the same time, intestinal trichimc are the cause of the animal's disease. It is only when the flesh containing trichince spirals is eaten thafc the disease known as trichinosis is communicated. It is a well established fact that all flesh-eating animáis are subject to this disease. Dr. Commons says he haa found trichinpe in rats and chickens, and even in ilsh reared in artificial ponds. This is a subject of interest and importance, and the theory advaneed by Dr. Commons sliould be so thoroughl; tested as to f ully substantiate it o

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Ann Arbor Democrat