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How to Kill the Parasites

To do this it is simply necessary to thoroughly cook the pork, so that every portion of the meat shall have experienced a temperature of at least 160° Fahr. This is of the utmost importance; it is owing to eating pork uncooked that has occasioned such loss of life among the poorer classes in Germany. Again, by properly salting and smoking the meat for at least 10 days, the trichinæ, should they exist, will be certainly killed. Simple desiccation of the meat, if continued for a period of sufficient length, will also kill them; as for instance they will never be found in old hams; mere pickling, however, does not appear to have any effect upon these worms. When we reflect, then that but 1 hog out of 48 of the 1394 examined was found to contain trichinæ at all, and but one in 300 was found to contain them in sufficient number to cause considerable danger, and that even in these cases the worms are rendered inocuous by proper smoking, drying, or cooking, we cannot see that the popular panic which now exists should be permitted to continue among intimes death if present in sufficient numbers. After telligent persons, and thus deprive nine-tenths of attaining a proper size and strength, these young our agricultural population of one of their chief trichinæ begin to penetrate the walls of the intes-articles of food.