It sometimes contains a parasite called trichina, which may be transferred to the human system, producing disease and often death. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
= -- The parasites found in food in this country are echinococcus, guineaworm, hookworm, trichina, and tapeworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
The only reason for cooking meats is to destroy the parasites such as tapeworm, trichina, etc., which are so often found in the meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
These developed in the alimentary tract of the cockroaches into larvae, which, like the trichina, were distributed into the muscles of the insects where they become encapsulated. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1926 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The tapeworms, common in many animals and often occurring in man, the roundworms of which the trichina (Fig. 3) that causes "measly" pork is a representative, are familiar examples. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
Not only do bacteria become innocuous through cooking, but various parasites, as trichina and tapeworm, are destroyed, although some organisms can live at a comparatively high temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
Upon awakening, should not the "ridiculous man," having been admitted to an earthly paradise only to act in it as the agent of corruption — "a horrible trichina, a germ of the plague" — finally carry out his initial resolve to kill himself?. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky] Reference
In the case of the larger parasites, such as the tapeworms and the trichina, there is a direct interchange of disease with animals, certain phases of the life cycle of the organisms are passed in man and others in various of the domestic animals. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
There is the trichina spiralis, which really exists, although the German pork-butchers denounce the story as a "pig lie;" the ordinary intestinal worm, which disports itself, eel-like, in the Alimentary Canal; and the tape worm, of two varieties, one of which performs its circumlocutory antics in the human stomach, and the other in the government Bureaux at. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference
Nor was the full story of the trichina made out for a long time after Owen's discovery. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
There was an excitement, just then, about the trichina germ in pork, and one of his memoranda says. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
Grain in Northern Wisconsin suffered severely in the latter part of the season from rust, chintz bug, Hessian fly and trichina. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
From our food we likewise contract dangerous maladies such as tapeworms from uncooked meats and fish and the deadly trichina from raw hog meat. From Wordnik.com. [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference
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And yet the existence of trichina-spiralis may be dated as far back as the time of Moses, who even then advocated prohibition of the use of pork as a food, and who considered pork not only an unwholesome food, but dangerous and even poisonous. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891] Reference
Then, again, had it not been for the microscope, the great English surgeon and physician, James Paget, would not have discovered that deadly parasite, the trichina-spiralis, which had already slaughtered thousands upon thousands of human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891] Reference
But important as the trichina parasite proved on its own account in the end, its greatest importance, after all, was in the share it played in directing attention at the time of its discovery in 1833 to the subject of microscopic parasites in general. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
Knowing that these diets are absolutely not the right things to be following because they give us everything from high blood pressure, to clogging up the arteries, to the trichina worm chewing on the wall of your intestines .. more .. comments (1) | permalink. From Wordnik.com. [Whudat • The Latest Black Celebrity News and Views sprinkled with flavors] Reference
It discovered not only higher rates of salmonella in free-range pigs (54 percent versus 39 percent) but also greater levels of the pathogen toxoplasma (6.8 percent versus 1.1 percent) and, most alarming, two free-range pigs that carried the parasite trichina (as opposed to zero for confined pigs). From Wordnik.com. [NCPA | Daily Policy Digest] Reference
The Western nations departed from this rule, and in these modern days we are beginning to realize the dangers of this article of food, on account of the trichina contained in it; and when we turn to the Talmud, we are told that it was forbidden to the Jews, "because of a small insect which infests it.". From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
Only your words melt my twenty-year freeze trichina worm. From Wordnik.com. [pyxopotamus Diary Entry] Reference
It obviates the possibility of trichina infection absolutely. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Dollar] Reference
What is the trichina?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
"measles" and the trichina worms. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
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