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PERNICIOUS PORK 
 
 OR 
 
 Astounding Revelations of the Evil 
 Effects of Eating Swine Flesh 
 
 A Book for the Public, the 
 Individual and the Family 
 
 WILLIAM T* HALLETT 
 
 WITH SPECIAL INTRODUCTION 
 
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 Copyright, 1903, 
 
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 WILLIAM T. HALLETT. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In the onward rush of civilization great truths, 
 like great events, become submerged in the engulf- 
 ing sea of forgetfulness. They would forever be 
 lost to man were it not for some gigantic influence 
 whose force and ability rescue these truths from 
 obscurity and give them once more to the world 
 for the betterment of mankind. 
 
 Not since biblical times have we heard the 
 clamorous warnings against the evils of eating 
 swine flesh. 
 
 The ancient Jews were a cleanly people in their 
 food as well as their raiment, and, until these 
 pages shall have been read, the unwholesomeness 
 of pork can hardly be realized. 
 
 It is small wonder the ancient race refused to 
 eat of it, and it is astounding that civilization 
 should permit its use. Why is it that no forceful 
 will has arisen in denunciation and warning to 
 stop this abhorrent practice? 
 
 Are we not living in a progressive age? Are 
 
we not ascending the ladder of social improvement 
 and scientific development? Yet a deadly evil 
 such as this is permitted to flourish, with scarcely 
 a dissenting voice to arrest the attention of the 
 innocent and ignorant victims. 
 
 The brave author of this book has modestly 
 chosen for his motto the words, "Someone Must 
 Say It/"' And he has said his say with truthful- 
 ness and skill. He has cited many historical inci- 
 dents to prove his assertions, quoting from various 
 sources many facts which hitherto have been little 
 
 known. 
 
 No greater philanthropy could be exercised than 
 this giving to the reading world of a volume which 
 the youngest student may read with the same 
 understanding as the wisest of scholars, and share 
 equally in the timely and forceful truths im- 
 parted. 
 
 Anyone whose influence tends to social or physi- 
 cal improvement is a benefactor of the race, and 
 as such the author of this remarkable volume will 
 be known. 
 
 He has expounded truths which have been hid- 
 den in the mists of obscurity for generations, and 
 suggested practical means to repair the destruction 
 wrought thereby. 
 
 He quotes numberless authorities whose revela- 
 tions prove his own assertions, while his suggested 
 methods of reform are original and full of merit. 
 
and must leave a favorable impression upon every 
 sensible mind. 
 
 This helpful work is interesting and well writ- 
 ten, its style fluent and lucid, its tone judicial, 
 while its explanations and arguments are convinc- 
 ing- _^ . , 
 
 To those who are seeking only entertainment 
 
 the book will strongly appeal, while to those who 
 are searching for truth and who are interested in 
 this most vital subject it will speak with all the 
 insistence belonging to great originality, research, 
 earnestness, and humanitarian zeal. 
 
 S. G. C. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 lis TRODUCTION ^^ 
 
 xi 
 
 FOREWOKD 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 Statement of the Case ^ 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Is the Law of the Clean and the Unclean Still 
 
 Binding On Us? "* 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Containing the Law of the Clean and the Unclean. 10 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The Philosophy of Clean and Unclean Practically 
 
 Unfathomable ^^ 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Suggested by a Perusal of the Eleventh Chapter of 
 Leviticus 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Quotations from the New Testament 22 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 The Practical Sea Captain . . , , 27 
 
viii Contents. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. p^GE 
 
 The Beginning of Testimony 30 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 Testa of Eating Various Kinds of Fat 35 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 Mistaken Conclusions 38 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Fearful Case of Eating Pork by a Farmer's Fam- 
 ily, Which is only the Story of Thousands of 
 Others 42 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 Philosophical 47 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 Sad Case of a Young Girl 49 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 Another Notable Case 51 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Still Another Case 54 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 The Melancholy Case of a Farmer of New Jersey. 57 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 Salt Rheum and Erysipelas 59 
 
 CHAPTER XVIIL 
 What They Say 61 
 
Contents. 
 
 IX 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. PAGE 
 
 Solid Testimony by Doctor Froligh ^^^^^^^^;^] ^ 
 
 Marcy 
 
 CHAFTER XX. 
 
 Remarks on the Foregoing Quotations-Leprosy... 66 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 73 
 
 A Bad Dose 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 The Squire's Indigestion 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 78 
 
 Tape-Worm 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 A Short Chapter Worth Reading.-Onion 82 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 The Chinese Nation and Chinese Leprosy 85 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 Horse Meat.-Law in New York Against its Sale. 91 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 QQ 
 
 The Decay and Fall of the Nation • • • 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 Dangers of Heedlessness Regarding Sanitation.... 101 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 The Rev. Doctor Dowie and His Sayings 105 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 115 
 
 The Latest; Snake-fed Ham ' *^ 
 
 « 
 
^ Contents. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. p^^^j. 
 
 the Public Really Taking Hold of the Subject.— 
 
 Garbage-fed Pork 119 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 Trichina Spiralis.— New York Herald Articles 121 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIII. 
 Trichina Continued. — Cystocererci 132 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 
 Foreigners Getting their Eyes Open 134 
 
 CHAPTER XXXV. 
 
 The Utilities of Swine 136 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVI. 
 
 Statistics of the Pork Production in the United 
 States, Exported During the Year Ending 
 June 30, 1899 141 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVII. 
 Appeals 347 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
 
 Coming to Close Quarters — Effects of Small 
 
 Amounts of Pork Eaten in Families 157 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIX. 
 Cooking Fats 360 
 
 CHAPTER XL. 
 Recapitulation 162 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 This work was projected some three years 
 ago, and during this time, has— more or less- 
 been subjected to careful study. 
 
 Having engaged in a profession through life 
 considerably involving sanitation, and also hav- 
 ing an enthusiasm for kindred things, I may, per- 
 haps, be pardoned for dwelling somewhat 
 pointedly upon the matter in hand. 
 
 With regard to the subject as affecting the 
 welfare of my countrymen generally, I cannot, 
 either in the preface or in the body of the work, 
 it is feared, sufficiently impress it upon them. 
 
 If success in a degree shall be attained in 
 arousing some from apparent lethargy in relation 
 to that which they eat and that which they 
 should re'fuse to eat, this will, indeed, be some- 
 thing gai-ned. 
 
 The work will be found as one of assertion 
 
xii Foreword. 
 
 more than of argument, for it is not proposed 
 at this late day to argue the question of, whether 
 it is injurious to fill one's self with so vile a 
 substance as swine flesh after becoming pork, 
 or not ; — indeed, one of the most peculiar things 
 with regard to pork eating is, that in its defense 
 we have never yet heard a sound reason ad- 
 vanced. 
 
 Philosophical statements giving the why and 
 wherefore of various matters, as far as practica- 
 ble should be made. The testimony of disinter- 
 ested experts ought to be accepted without ques- 
 tion ; while observation and research extending 
 through a period of years, would seem to be 
 sufficient for the fair minded and the intelligent 
 as conclusive. 
 
 That Jehovah Himself deemed it necessary to 
 give positive commandment in the matter with 
 specifications extending to the minutest detail, 
 is a sufficient finality of the whole question. 
 
 W. T. H. 
 New York, May, 1903. 
 
SOME ONE MUST SAY IT 
 
PERNICIOUS PORK. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE CASE. 
 
 A PROPER discrimination regarding the nature 
 of substances introduced into the stomach from 
 day to day, is a matter of vital importance to 
 our well being. 
 
 Whether we have a knowledge of the action 
 on the system of these substances or not, they 
 will still work out their legitimate results, in 
 spite of our beliefs or desires. That there is 
 a great difference too among the people as to 
 knowing — or in many instances, of even caring 
 much about these things — is also true; though 
 the large majority of well intentioned folk must 
 be accounted as being always ready to avail them- 
 selves of that which they are convinced is for 
 their present and permanent good. 
 
 In proceeding then, with our subject mat- 
 
2 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 ter at once, It may be observed, first — that upon 
 the consumption of pork as an article of food, 
 respectable numbers of intelligent men and 
 women of our country, have, long ere this, set the 
 seal of condemnation. 
 
 This advance in thinking has been brought 
 about in various ways — partly through the insis- 
 tence of the medical profession — by conclu- 
 sions arising from the exercise of reason and 
 common sense — the considerable influence of the 
 public press, together with a gradual awakening 
 of many to the vital teachings on the subject of 
 Holy Writ. The silent influence, too, of the 
 cities and larger towns, which, as a rule, con- 
 tain aggregations of the descendants of that an- 
 cient people, the Israelites, has had its salutary 
 effect ; for it cannot be denied, that through 
 thick and thin, they — to their praise be it said — 
 have steadfastly adhered to the commands of 
 Jehovah with regard to the eating of clean and 
 unclean things. 
 
 Grounds then, which I propose to informally 
 -maintain, are: 
 
 First. — That swine flesh on becoming aii ar- 
 ticle of food, is totally unclean, and most perni- 
 cious in its effects, and, therefore, its use should 
 be abandoned by every one. 
 
 Second. — That its far reaching influence 
 
[Statement of the Case. 3 
 
 through contamination of the physical system, 
 and, consequently, of the moral and spiritual 
 nature, should be in these particulars, a source 
 of alarming solicitude to the individual, as it is 
 a direct menace in its enormity to the stability 
 and perpetuity of the nation ; therefore, universal 
 apprehension for the general good should be 
 aroused in the minds of every citizen and patriot. 
 
 Third. — That the great corruption of the coun- 
 try in the v^^ay of morals, general lawlessness, 
 intemperance and spiritual degeneracy, is due, 
 in a great degree, directly or indirectly, to the 
 eating of this polluting substance. 
 
 Fourth. — That our country being a great pro- 
 ducer of swine, and really the source of the pork 
 supply for nearly half the world, it becomes the 
 duty of all right minded men, women and chil- 
 dren, to do what they can, individually and col- 
 lectively, to rid the face of the earth, as far as 
 in them lies, of its presence. 
 
 In consideration then, of these premises, it is 
 my purpose to set before the reader an amount 
 of evidence, which, to those possessed of candor, 
 should be not only convincing, but still better, 
 if it shall cause such to abandon the use of an 
 article of food so mischievous in its operations 
 on the human system, as pork and its various ad- 
 junctive parts. 
 
Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 IS THE LAW OF THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN 
 STILL BINDING ON US? 
 
 With regard to the question of, whether the 
 old Mosaic law of the clean and the unclean is 
 binding on us of the present day and age, I pro- 
 pose to suggest no profitless controversy. It is 
 enough to know that swine's flesh as food was 
 created unclean by the Almighty ; that He gave 
 commandment that it should not be eaten ; that 
 the Israelites, for the most part, have kept the 
 law to their great good until now, while our own 
 eminent physicians testify most pointedly the 
 direful effects of eating pork. 
 
 If physical good, then, resulted to the people 
 of old by abstaining from the use of pork, so also 
 will abstinence in present time result. 
 
 But if it would have eventuated in pollution of 
 body and mind for the Jews to eat pork, so also 
 will it eventuate with us of to-day, if persisted in. 
 
 Did the Israelite reap physical benefit horn 
 
Is the Law Still Binding on Us? 5 
 
 obeying the command ? Then it is a serious com- 
 mentary on Christian Hving that the custom es- 
 tabhshed should have been allowed to fall into 
 almost total disuse ! 
 
 The commandment was clearly stated, as given 
 by God Himself to the offspring of Israel, 
 through the medium of Moses, His servant. The 
 consequences of disobedience were the same then 
 as they are to-day with us — a physical injury pri- 
 marily and thence both a moral and spiritual one 
 besides. 
 
 Or, if it be claimed that the commandment 
 shall be classed as belonging simply to the cere- 
 monial or the ephemeral, why may we not urge 
 the same thing for the laws of the Mosaic Dis- 
 pensation generally? 
 
 The results of the habits of our forefathers in 
 this relation were, the bringing in of many dis- 
 eases and semi-diseases, of which we shall have 
 more to say. 
 
 The question has often been asked, "Why the 
 early Americans who came from the old country, 
 mostly Englishmen of full blood, should sq 
 'scrawn' away as to become the proverbially thin 
 and lank appearing men that very many of them 
 did become?" Can there be the least doubt that 
 their excessive pork eating was one of the most 
 potent factors in the transition, especially v/hen 
 
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 we are reminded by one of intelligence "that the 
 early New Englanders, and others, were inor- 
 dinately given to the eating of pork ; it being their 
 staple in the way of fresh meat"? 
 
 If, then, it were good for the Israelites to ab- 
 stain from eating pork, such is also excellent 
 philosophy for us to adopt. And how, we may 
 ask, does pork in its chemical nature dififer from 
 that in existence at the time the commandment 
 forbidding its use was declared? 
 
 The answer is, — That it now differs in its 
 chemical nature from that, probably not in so 
 much as a single iota ! 
 
 Or, can evidence of any kind be found, either 
 biblical or medical, or even historical, that the 
 unclean nature of the substance has been changed 
 since the incoming of the Christian era, or at 
 any other time? Noiie ivhatsoever; on the con- 
 trary, our eminent physicians of both the allo- 
 pathic and the homeopathic schools, affirm and 
 reaffirm, not only its utter vileness, but its dis- 
 ease dealing proclivities, as we shall abvmdantly 
 show. We might as well attempt to set aside 
 some of the Ten Commandments themselves, 
 should they get inconveniently in our way, as to 
 ignore this one ; for all were given from the same 
 source, and at about the same time; though by 
 different mxCthods. 
 
Is the Law Still Binding on Us? 7 
 
 Bible students agree that cardinal doctrines and 
 teachings of the Old Testament were given us for 
 an ''eiisaniple/^ Pork, therefore, not being a whit 
 cleaner meat to-day than when the command 
 against it was given, it remains a fact, that for 
 our own welfare, as well as for that of genera- 
 tions which shall come after us, to repudiate 
 its use totally is just as binding upon us as it was 
 on the Israelites of old. Indeed, is abstinence not 
 as great a boon to God's people of this age as it 
 was to God's people of thousands of years ago? 
 
 In this light, then — of the Old Testament as be- 
 ing a teacher and guide for the Christian as well 
 as the Israelite — it is quite doubtful if the com- 
 mandment was really intended at the outset any 
 more for the latter than for the former. 
 
 In view, therefore, of the data given, and of the 
 principles involved, I dismiss the theory of the 
 old law as not being binding on the people of to- 
 day as virtually false. 
 
 The following quotation is as sensible as it is 
 unambiguous : — 
 
 "We find this in answer to correspondents in 
 a bright little New York paper. It is a question 
 and answer in the doctor's column, and we wish 
 
8 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 there were more doctors who were more *He- 
 brewish' in this regard. 
 
 "Question : Do you believe in kilHng hogs in 
 the moon as to its affecting the pork? 
 
 ''Answer : The writer does not believe in killing 
 hogs in the moon or out of the moon or at any 
 time. Let the hog live as long as he can and do 
 his duty as a scavenger. While he is alive he 
 serves a useful purpose. When he is dead he is 
 likely to make mischief unless he is accorded the 
 privilege of a decent burial. Hogs were never in- 
 tended to be eaten." , 
 
 To the last statement many a poor dyspeptic 
 who has rtuned his stomach on breakfasts of 
 buckwheat cakes and ham, dinners of roast pork 
 and pie, added to by suppers in which the "hot 
 dish" is sausage or more ham (not an infrequent 
 American menu, by the way), many a poor suf- 
 ferer will say, "Amen, doctor; if we had only 
 known sooner." 
 
 The fact is, there is a great deal we might 
 learn from those old Jewish laws on the subject 
 of hygiene, especially as it touches the home. The 
 ancient Jews knew what health was and the value 
 of it. They were God's chosen people, and Sam- 
 son was not their only strong man nor the regal 
 Esther their only beautiful woman. Their wom- 
 en had the finest complexions of any race in the 
 
Is the Law Still Binding on Us? 9 
 
 world — and it is just as well to remember that 
 they didn't eat pork." Stamford (Conn.), Ad- 
 vocate. 
 
 We shall now quote from the Bible, the law of 
 the Clean and the Unclean ; being the eleventh 
 chapter of the book of Leviticus, and which we 
 may say, after comparing them, is precisely the 
 same in both the Douay and our own versions. 
 
10 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 CONTAINING THE LAW OF THE CLEAN AND THE 
 UNCLEAN. 
 
 Leviticus, Chapter XL 
 
 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to 
 Aaron., saying unto them, 
 
 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying. 
 These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all 
 the beasts that are on the earth. 
 
 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven- 
 footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, 
 that shall ye eat. 
 
 4 Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat of them 
 that chew the cud, or of them that divide the 
 hoof, as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, 
 but divideth not the hoof ; he is unclean unto you. 
 
 5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, 
 but divideth not the hoof ; he is unclean unto you. 
 
 6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, 
 but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 
 
Law of the Clean and Unclean. 11 
 
 7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, 
 and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud ; 
 he is unclean to you. 
 
 8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their car- 
 cass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to 
 you. 
 
 9 ^ These shall ye eat of all that are in the 
 waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the 
 waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall 
 ye eat. 
 
 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the 
 seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the 
 waters, and of any living thing which is in the 
 waters, they shall be an abomination unto you. 
 
 11 They shall be even an abomination unto 
 you ; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall 
 have their carcasses in abomination. 
 
 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the 
 waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. 
 
 13 Tl And these are they which ye shall have in 
 abomination among the fowls : they shall not be 
 eaten, they are an abomination : the eagle and the 
 ossifrage, and the osprey, 
 
 14 And the vulture, and the kite after his 
 kind; 
 
 15 Every raven after his kind; 
 
 16 And the owl, and the nighthawk, and the 
 cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 
 
12 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and 
 the great owl, 
 
 18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the 
 gier eagle, 
 
 19 And the stork, and the heron after her 
 kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 
 
 20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, 
 shall be an abomination unto you. 
 
 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creep- 
 ing thing that goeth upon all four, which have 
 legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the 
 earth ; 
 
 22 Even these of them ye may eat ; the locust 
 after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, 
 and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper 
 after his kind. 
 
 23 But all other flying creeping things, which 
 have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. 
 
 24 And for these ye shall be unclean ; whoso- 
 ever toucheth the carcass of them shall be un- 
 clean until the even. 
 
 25 And whosoever beareth aught of the car- 
 cass of them shall wash his clothes, and be un- 
 clean until the even. 
 
 26 The carcasses of every beast which divid- 
 eth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor chew- 
 eth the cud, are unclean unto you ; every one that 
 toucheth them shall be unclean. 
 
Law of the Clean and Unclean. 13 
 
 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, 
 among all manner of beasts that go on all four, 
 those are unclean unto you ; whoso toucheth their 
 carcass shall be unclean until the even. 
 
 28 And he that beareth the carcass of them 
 shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the 
 even ; they are unclean unto you. 
 
 29 Tf These also shall be unclean unto you 
 among the creeping things that creep upon the 
 earth ; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise 
 after his kind, 
 
 30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the 
 lizard, and the snail, and the mole. 
 
 31 These are unclean to you among all that 
 creep : whosoever doth touch them, when they be 
 dead, shall be unclean until the even. 
 
 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when 
 they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; 
 whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or 
 skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any 
 work is done, it must be put into water, and it 
 shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be 
 cleansed. 
 
 33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any 
 of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be un- 
 clean ; and ye shall break it. 
 
 34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on 
 which such water cometh shall be unclean; and 
 
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 all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel 
 shall be unclean. 
 
 35 And every thing whereupon aivy part of 
 their carcass falleth shall be unclean ; zvhether it 
 he oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken 
 down ; for they are unclean, and shall be unclean 
 unto you. 
 
 36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit wherein there 
 is plenty of water, shall be clean ; but that which 
 toucheth their carcass shall be unclean. 
 
 37 And if any part of their carcass fall upon 
 any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be 
 clean. 
 
 38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and 
 any part of their carcass fall thereon, it shall be 
 unclean unto you. 
 
 39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; 
 he that touches that carcass thereof shall be un- 
 clean until the even. 
 
 40 And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall 
 wash his clothes, and be unclean until the eyen; 
 he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash 
 his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 
 
 41 And every creeping thing that creepeth 
 upon the earth shall be an abomination ; it shall 
 not be eaten. 
 
 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and what- 
 soever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath 
 
Law of the Clean and Unclean. 15 
 
 more feet among all creeping things that creep 
 upon the earth, them ye shall not eat ; for they are 
 an abomination. 
 
 43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable 
 with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither 
 shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that 
 ye should be defiled thereby. 
 
 44 For I am the Lord your God ; ye shall there- 
 fore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy ; fot 
 I am holy; neither shall ye defile yourselves with 
 any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon 
 
 the earth. 
 
 45 For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out 
 of the land of Egypt, to be your God; ye shall 
 therefore be holy, for I am holy. 
 
 46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the 
 fowl, and of every living creature that moveth 
 in the waters, and of every creature that creep- 
 eth upon the earth : 
 
 47 To make a difference between the unclean 
 and the clean, and between the beast that may be 
 eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE PHILOSOPHY OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN PRAC- 
 TICALLY UNFATHOMABLE. 
 
 In view of that which has been read in the pre- 
 ceding chapter, the suggestion doubtless arises of 
 inquiring into the nature of the Clean and the 
 Unclean, or why should the internal organism of 
 a particular animal cause that animal's flesh to be 
 clean or unclean food for mankind? 
 
 The inquiry would certainly be pertinent; but 
 we suspect that as yet neither scholar nor sci- 
 entist has been able to solve the problem. All 
 that can be said of it seems to be that He Who 
 made the animals, made them clean and unclean 
 for a purpose, and furthermore, He had the good- 
 ness to promptly inform us how to distinguish 
 between the two conditions. 
 
 It was essential to man's well being that he 
 should know this, or it would not have been de- 
 liberately commanded, even to the minutest de- 
 
Practically Unfathomable. 17 
 
 tail ; nor would it have accorded with the benevo- 
 lence of the Creator to place man in the midst of 
 hurtful and beneficial alimentary things without 
 giving him notice of some kind as to their physi- 
 cal effects. 
 
 But is it to the credit at all of the Christian, 
 either nominal or professed, to have gone on for 
 nearly two thousand years, polluting generation 
 after generation through the eating of improper 
 and forbidden things? 
 
 Truly, the Christian has had good reason for 
 centuries to lament over conditions expressed in 
 the following couplet ; when one serious source of 
 the same without doubt has been the almost literal 
 soaking of the liver and the system generally in 
 the fat of the pig : 
 
 "Where is the blessedness I knew 
 When first I sazv the Lord?" 
 
 If any believe that various physical conditions 
 may not be helps or hindrances to spiritual prog- 
 ress, they should be undeceived at once. 
 
 And as we survey the vast and increasing pork- 
 producing area, we may inquire : When at such a 
 rate will the world be purged of the impurities 
 and the imperfections requisite for the great 
 events of the second coming of Christ and the 
 
18 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 millennium; which, according to the belief of 
 some, are not so very far away ? 
 
 Many pray continually that "His Kingdom 
 may come" and that "His will may be done," but 
 go straightway to their deliberately ordered din- 
 ner of "the Pernicious"— not thinking that eating 
 the same is in direct contravention of their peti- 
 tions and in utter opposition to the commandment ! 
 
A Quotation. 19 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 SUGGESTED BY A PERUSAL OF THE ELEVENTH CHAP- 
 TER OF LEVITICUS. 
 
 The following quotation is from the anony- 
 mous writings of an English clergyman and is 
 much to the point : — 
 
 "Oh ! for a deeper sense of the fulness, majesty 
 and authority of the Word of God! We very 
 much need to be braced up on this point. We 
 want such a deep, bold, vigorous, influential and 
 abiding sense of the supreme authority of the 
 divine canon and of its absolute completeness for 
 every age, every clime, every position, every de- 
 partment — personal, social and ecclesiastical — as 
 shall enable us to withstand every attempt of the 
 enemy to depreciate the value of that inestimable 
 treasure. May our hearts enter more into the 
 spirit of these words of the Psalmist : Thy word 
 is true from the beginning; and every one of Thy 
 
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 righteous judgments endureth forever.* (Psalm 
 
 cxix. i6o.) 
 
 'The foregoing train of thought is awakened 
 by the perusal of the eleventh chapter of Leviti- 
 cus. Therein we find Jehovah entering, in a most 
 marvelous detail, into a description of beasts, 
 birds, fishes and reptiles, and furnishing His peo- 
 ple with various marks by which they were to 
 know what was clean and what was unclean. We 
 have the summing up of the entire contents of this 
 remarkable chapter in the two closing verses. This 
 is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of 
 every living creature that moveth in the waters, 
 and of every creature that creepeth upon the 
 earth ; to make a difference between the unclean 
 and the clean, and between the beast that may be 
 eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. 
 
 "With regard to beasts, two things are essential 
 to render them clean, they should chew the cud 
 and divide the hoof. 'Whatsoever parteth the 
 hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud 
 among the beasts, that shall ye eat.' Either of 
 these marks of itself would have been wholly in- 
 sufficient to constitute cleanness. The two should 
 go together. 
 
 "The divided hoof was insufficient if not ac- 
 companied by the chewing of the cud. The 
 
A Quotation. 21 
 
 swine, though he divide the hoof and be cloven- 
 footed, yet he cheweth not the cud ; he is unclean 
 to you.' In a word, then, the two things are in- 
 separable in the case of every clean animal." 
 And this, dear reader, is late modern utterance. 
 
22 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 QUOTATIONS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 There seems to be an impression in the minds 
 of many that since the dawn of the Christian 
 era certain matters or meat — swine flesh in- 
 cluded' — have somehow become changed, and 
 through miraculous or other power have been 
 made clean. 
 
 These triumphantly refer to a passage in the 
 New Testament— Acts of the Apostles, the elev- 
 enth chapter, verses 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, which we 
 quote — it being Peter who speaks : — 
 
 5. *T was in the city of Joppa praying; and in 
 a trance I saw a vision. A certain vessel de- 
 scended, as it had been a great sheet, let down 
 from heaven by four corners ; and it came even 
 
 to me: — 
 
 6. Upon the which when I had fastened mine 
 eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts 
 of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping 
 things, and fowls of the air. 
 
New Testament Quotations. 23 
 
 7. And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, 
 Peter, slay and eat. 
 
 8. But I said, Not so, Lord : — for nothing com- 
 mon or unclean hath at any time entered into 
 my mouth. 
 
 9. But the voice answered me again from 
 heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not 
 thou common." 
 
 This passage refers to the departure of Peter 
 from Jewish custom, in consorting with the Gen- 
 tiles when accused of the same by his Israelitish 
 associates ; it being an explanatory defense to 
 them, which proved acceptable. 
 
 'It may be added that this was at the time of 
 the offering of salvation to the Gentiles, accord- 
 ing to the ways of the New Dispensation ; the 
 Jews having already rejected Christ. 
 
 Peter was in a trance, observe, and saw a vision 
 of wild beasts, fowls, creeping things, let down 
 from heaven in a sheet, when a voice said, "Arise, 
 Peter, slay and eat." "Not so, Lord," he repHed, 
 "I have never eaten the common and unclean." 
 He was a Jew, and just here referred to pork and 
 other unclean things. Then the voice answered — • 
 he still being in the trance — "What God hath 
 cleansed, call not thou common." 
 
 Remember, that with the signal of the rending 
 in twain of the veil of the Temple at the time of 
 
24 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 the crucifixion, the Jewish Dispensation ended 
 and the Christian Dispensation began. God had 
 now, so to speak, cleansed the Gentiles of their 
 former relation ; but there is nowhere any refer- 
 ence of any kind to the cleansing of pork and 
 other unclean things— for why should they be 
 made clean? 
 
 The meaning of the whole incident was to 
 show Peter that now the Gentiles were to have 
 the favor of Heaven, and that he was expected to 
 use his influence to this effect. 
 
 If they theretofore had been regarded as un- 
 clean or common they were no more to be so con- 
 sidered— if or whom God had cleansed, such were 
 not to be called unclean. 
 
 If any should have a lingering doubt as to 
 whether the cleanliness of animals or of men is 
 here referred to, let them turn to the last clause 
 of verse 28 of Acts 10: ''But God hath showed 
 me (Peter) that I should not call any man com- 
 mon or unclean." 
 
 But seriously, isn't it a little odd that the aiders 
 and abettors of pork eating adhere so tenaciously 
 to the one item of the unclean— namely, pork— 
 leavine numbers of others entirely unnoticed? If 
 any of them have become clean, why not aUf 
 such as a rat, dog, cat, camel and all the rest, 
 their names being legion. Or, if there is now no 
 
New Testament Quotations. 25 
 
 harm in eating the unclean — which isn't a fact, 
 then the commandment is resolved into an un- 
 meaning farce — which is something that cannot 
 be admitted. 
 
 Again, there is that other passage which proves 
 such a stumbling block in this connection to 
 many — Romans 14, verses 14, 15, 16: — 
 
 14. "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord 
 Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself ; 
 but to him that esteemeth anything to be un- 
 clean, to him it is unclean." 
 
 15. ''But if thy brother be grieved with thy 
 meat, now walkest not thou charitably. De- 
 stroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ 
 died." 
 
 16. ''Let not, then, your good be evil spoken 
 
 of." 
 
 The passage is roundly but mistakenly quoted 
 in support of their theory bv those who affirm 
 the harmlessness of eating swine flesh. 
 
 The word unclean in verse 14 is not used in the 
 sense in which it is being used in these pages. 
 Theories, doctrines and similar things are what 
 are referred to in the Bible. The passage might 
 be rendered thus : — 
 
 Do not, therefore, stoutly set up your opinions 
 against a weaker brother, as your attitude may 
 prov^ to be his downfall— in his being unable to 
 
26 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 bear up against so ''strong meat" — when the good 
 in you, through his possible fall, might fee in dan- 
 ger of being evil spoken of. 
 
 There is still another passage which unthink- 
 ing people quote to their great satisfaction — St. 
 Matthew's Gospel, chapter 15, verse 11:— 
 
 *'Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth 
 a man ; but that which cometh out of the mouth, 
 this defileth a man." 
 
 Straightway after reading this they say, ''Are 
 we not, then, at liberty to eat without harm any- 
 thing we please— does not the Bible allow us so 
 to do?" 
 
 The passage may be made clear to these by 
 rendering it as follows: — 
 
 That unclean food which goeth into the mouth 
 defileth a man not nearly as much as the aggre- 
 gate uncleanness that cometh out of the mouths 
 of some in the way of vile language, conversa- 
 tion and slander— nor are the lasting effects of 
 the former to be compared with those of the 
 latter ! 
 
The Practical Sea Captain. 27 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE PRACTICAL SEA CAPTAIN. 
 
 An old sea captain— a Christian — upon report- 
 ing back to us, after having been referred to the 
 eleventh chapter oi the book of Leviticus, said, 
 ''Why, all shellfish are included in the unclean 
 according to this ! — and still the doctors at times 
 prescribe for an invalid oysters and oyster broth 
 as among beneficial and appetizing delicacies. I 
 never, it seems to me, can accept the theory that 
 these are unclean." 
 
 "So then you cannot accept Scripture as quite 
 correct," we replied. 
 
 "But," he continued, "the iodine in clam and 
 oyster liquid, together with the phosphorus and 
 salt, are bracing and strengthening to every one." 
 
 "Quite true," we said, "they are so to those in 
 whom they are wanting." 
 
 All of this he had verified by hivS daily expen> 
 
28 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 ence for years, and he declared it with the brev- 
 ity and aplomb of a chemist. 
 
 "And there is nothing," he said, "that will 
 build up the health and constitution like the sea 
 air, laden with these same chemicals." 
 
 "Yes," — we admitted it all — "but what of the 
 commandment?" we asked. 
 
 Here he was some time m reaching conclu- 
 sions, inasmuch, presumably as we appeared to 
 question his attitude regarding Scriptural asser- 
 tions. 
 
 It is just here — these chemicals are most 
 strengthening to the weakened system, whether 
 associated with sea food or not ; but what practi- 
 cal and pleasurable vehicles for conveying them 
 to the human organism do the sea products and 
 the elements of air and water become ! 
 
 It would seem, too, that the benefits of the sea 
 product of shellfish — aside from lobster — far out- 
 balance the lesser amount of the unclean, as con- 
 tained in the oyster and in the clam of both the 
 quahaug and the soft-shell varieties; and com- 
 pare the small amount and the diminished inten- 
 sity of the unclean in these with that found in 
 pork! — ^there can scarcely be room for com.pari- 
 son. 
 
 Think ^Iso of the pollution in pork, with its in- 
 sidious, penetrative and super-fowl nature, &a 
 
The Practical Sea Captain. 29 
 
 contrasted with the accompanying — we might al- 
 most say — antidoting chemicals in the kinds of 
 shellfish named. 
 
 But — as opposed to all this— there stands the 
 commandment, which cannot be ignored! 
 
 Iodine, which is a non-metallic element, is de- 
 rived mostly from seaweeds. It is used allopathi- 
 cally for many complaints and diseases, being a 
 most valuable and powerful medicine in combina- 
 tion and otherwise. 
 
 When used homeopathically it is a rapidly act- 
 ing and potent nerve tonic, causing a general 
 bracing up. 
 
 Phosphorus, as contained in the syrup-of-the- 
 hypophosphites and elsewhere, is a great builder 
 of brain, nerve and bone, and consequently is 
 much used in emaciated conditions. 
 
30 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE BEGINNING OF TESTIMONY. 
 
 In setting forth testimony sustaining our ten- 
 ets in connection with the diabolical effects on the 
 human system of eating swine flesh, first men- 
 tion will be made of a lady in middle life who was 
 a serious invalid for more than fifteen years; a 
 sensitive, nervous person, who could bear nothing 
 on the stomach of abnormal character. 
 
 Here was an opportunity for provings. 
 
 What may be called experimental tests were 
 carried on for a number of years for the purpose 
 of scrutinizing from time to time that which 
 might be found necessary for the good of the in- 
 valid. 
 
 Everything of the pork nature, therefore, it 
 was found, was at all times rejected by the ac- 
 tion of the stomach. Great pain and total inabil- 
 ity to digest the stuff were results of every at- 
 
The Beginning of Testimony. 31 
 
 tempt in this direction — nay, the effect on the 
 whole nervous system was prostration, mitil the 
 substance was in some way eliminated ; while fa- 
 cial expression of dejection or anguish after a 
 night of suffering were sufficient testimonies of 
 inward conditions. 
 
 The rejection, too, of lard in every department 
 of the household cookery was found to be im- 
 perative and the more wholesome fat of beef and 
 mutton substituted therefor. If by accident lard 
 was at any time used, it was immediately de- 
 tected by the sufferer upon being received into 
 the stomach. 
 
 Here, then, is evidence of that which the mis- 
 erable substance is capable of effecting in the case 
 of an invalid whose stomach and nerves were in 
 very sensitive conditions — and we may bear in 
 mind the fact that an enfeebled physical state 
 will show effect of treatment much more quickly 
 than the stronger one. 
 
 Referring to lard, which might be called the 
 essence of pork — the essence of anything, for the 
 most part, being much more potent than the resi- 
 due — who that has inhaled the fumes of hot lard 
 arising from the big stone jar, just after the "try- 
 ing out," cannot easily detect therewith odors of 
 the very pig-pen ? Nor does it require a deal of ol- 
 factory practice to discover the same in some of 
 
32 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 the richer kinds of cake, as compounded by 
 some. 
 
 It is humiliating when we reflect upon the wide 
 extent in which lard is used for cooking all over 
 the country, and for that matter throughout the 
 world — because we are now corrupting the na- 
 tions not only with our whiskey, but with our 
 pork also.* 
 
 Lard may be found here, there and in almost 
 everything we eat. 
 
 So much fat of various kinds goes down our 
 devoted throats that it is a wonder the digestive 
 apparatus should be in condition to operate at all 
 — though it must be admitted that the aliment of 
 men, when left to their own choosing, is more free 
 from fat than when selected by women. 
 
 We see it in all fried foods — in ham and eggs 
 particularly, which, as served by many, are 
 ''swimming in lard." In fried potatoes and fried 
 chicken? Yes, for it would nearly stun most of 
 us to find either of these cooked in butter. Fried 
 oysters and fried escallops? — in lard, to be sure. 
 Crullers to be "really good" must be boiled in 
 about a quarter of their bulk of lard. Pie crust? 
 oh, yes — "it must be nice and short or it is hardly 
 fit to eat. 
 
 * (See amount of pork exported from the U, S. dur* 
 Ing th^ year ending June 30, iS^Ch^p, 14$,) 
 
The Beginning of Testimony. 33 
 
 But from the fried meats more enlightened 
 people have for the last twenty-five years been 
 gradually drawing away to the broiled; while, 
 better still, the. best of all methods of cooking 
 meats has in a measure come in— the steaming 
 process — which renders them more tender and 
 much sweeter, besides increasing the flavor to a 
 remarkable degree. 
 
 But think for a moment of steaming pork, with 
 the odors and impurities, as it were, all steamed 
 in! This, if consummated, would seem what 
 might properly be termed eating pork with a 
 vengeance. 
 
 We might go on indefinitely, including almost 
 a majority of the things we eat — good, rich, fat 
 gravies, roasted beef and mutton and all the other 
 meats ; bread with butter, cake, "good and short," 
 containing its pounds of butter, oiled salads, fat, 
 fat — grease everywhere, and especially lard, and, 
 really, it is a wonder any of us are alive ! 
 
 One medical authority, referring to the sub- 
 ject, laments in terms pathetic the ruinous habit 
 of filling ourselves with fats and grease of vari- 
 ous sorts, stating that "the internal mechanism 
 is most seriously clogged thereby." 
 
 Of course, we have need for eating more fat 
 in winter than in summer, in order to keep the 
 
34 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 body warm in the colder season, but we never 
 have need of pork or lard at any time. 
 
 In the case of the lady quoted, it was noticed, 
 however, that all kinds of nuts, which it was 
 found necessary to chew exceedingly fine, could 
 be taken with impunity, an argument going far 
 towards establishing that late theory of "fruits 
 and nuts as being most valuable health foods" 
 — ^the oil of nuts being vegetable and not animal 
 oil, is presumably more wholesome, especially 
 when intermingled with the acid of fruit. 
 
Tests of Eating Fat. 35 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 TESTS OF EATING VARIOUS KINDS OF FAT. 
 
 The writer, curious to know the sensations and 
 the effects on the skin of eating an overplus of 
 the fatty parts of the various meats in vogue, to- 
 gether with butter, determined to experiment for 
 himself with mutton, butter, beef and pork suc- 
 cessively. 
 
 Now, good mutton chops, which are apt to 
 be somewhat fat, are, for those who like them, 
 not the most unpleasant eating in the world, so 
 that we found experiments in this direction not 
 in the least irksome. 
 
 After a few days' trial therefore, keeping to 
 it of course longer than a usual diet of mutton 
 would warrant, we presently began to feel a 
 prickling in various localities just beneath the 
 surface of the skin in lines directly outward. The 
 sensation was as if a few very fine needles were 
 
36 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 piercing the skin from the interior, but of so re- 
 fined a nature as to produce Httle or no unpleas- 
 ant feeling. It seemed to say — stop now — you 
 have enough. 
 
 So we took the hint, and after allowing Na- 
 ture time to clear the way, began a second ex- 
 periment. 
 
 Twas with butter this time; but butter, we 
 regret to say, did not come up to our expecta- 
 tions. 
 
 Butter in excess created a most unpleasant 
 soreness of the skin in various places, but of a 
 vastly different character to that of pork. The 
 patches were spread out and of various dimen- 
 sions, although none of them were of special 
 magnitude. 
 
 It may have been the case, that being quite 
 fond of good bread and butter— especially the 
 latter — we were somewhat unstinted in our eat- 
 ing, being anxious too for a good proving. But- 
 ter was, however, allowed to pass, for the more 
 important test of beef. 
 
 The effect of the beef fat was similar in all 
 ways to that of mutton, though more pronounced 
 more potent — while somehow it gave the im- 
 pression of being more healthful and more 
 natural than any of the other tests. Of course 
 it was therefore more satisfactory ; being utterly 
 
Tests of Eating Fat. 37 
 
 dissimilar to anything pertaining to the expveri- 
 ments with pork. 
 
 On coming to the trial of pork with quahiis 
 of conscience, as it were, as well as of stomach ; 
 in due time spots began to appear on the skin, 
 which, instead of pimpling and heading, spread 
 out on the surface in patches broad and sore, 
 this being at variance with the previous trials. 
 
 There was evidently poison there of some kmd, 
 which, without doubt, proceeded from the un- 
 clean. 
 
 Had we kept to a long continued eating of the 
 pork, we can imagine the effect with much more 
 complacency than would have been pleasant to 
 experience. 
 
38 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 MISTAKEN CONCLUSIONS. 
 
 A NOTABLE point regarding the eating of pork 
 is, that no sound argument at all in its favor can 
 be brought forward. 
 
 The most that its friends can say for it is, 
 that "we like it," as if that proved anything; or 
 that "a good 'ribsper' of pork is hard to beat in 
 the way of good eating." While again, many 
 will chime in with this — that "my father and my 
 grandfather both ate pork throughout their lives, 
 and it never harmed them in the least." 
 
 Now this sort of talk is all negative, besides 
 being neither truth nor argument; and let such 
 as urge the above assertions read this book care- 
 fully, and we suspect they will at least then be- 
 gin to think that pork-eating might have done 
 injury to their progenitors. 
 
 If your forefathers ate unsparingly of pork, 
 are you quite sure you have no ails of the physi- 
 cal, the moral or the spiritual? We hope not 
 
Mistaken Conclusions. 39 
 
 most sincerely; — but do not fall Into so serious 
 an error yourself. 
 
 Can disobedience of the commands of God be 
 indulged in with impunity? 
 
 Direct disobedience of Old Testament ordi- 
 nances was followed many times by punishment at 
 once severe and condign, — while if in New Tes- 
 tament times, Justice seems to be tempered with 
 Mercy, as the world tends toward ripened con- 
 ditions, there is but little chance of escape from 
 violation of physical law ; which In a sense, is as 
 much God's law as is the revealed. 
 
 If, for example, one w^ere to swallow in suc- 
 cession, poisonous doses of arsenic, what would 
 hinder pretty immediate death? — or, If the doses 
 were that small as to cause but little perceptible 
 effect at once; where, if long continued, are the 
 odds in point of fact or argument between imme- 
 diate or ultimate demise? 
 
 We cannot transgress physical law without ex- 
 periencing resultant effects; — and what a world 
 of hope is here suggested to the invalid — be- 
 cause the converse is just as true — to wit, that 
 any and all efforts put forth in the right direc- 
 tion for the recovery of health, will also have 
 their legitimate and good results. 
 
 The following from Prof. Drummond Is to the 
 point : — 
 
40 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 "If it makes no impression on a man to know; 
 that God will visit his iniquities upon him, he 
 cannot blind himself to the fact that Nature will. 
 Do not we all know what it is to be punished 
 by Nature for disobeying her? We have looked 
 round the wards of a hospital, a prison or a 
 mad house, and seen there Nature at work 
 squaring her accounts with sin. And we knew 
 as we looked that if no Judge sat on the throne 
 of heaven at all there was a Judgment there, 
 where an inexorable Nature was crying aloud for 
 Justice, and carrying out her heavy sentences 
 for violated laws." 
 
 Following is a bit of testimony entirely dis- 
 interested, taken from a leading newspaper of 
 New York during the late Spanish war ; the 
 writer evidently being a gentleman of discrimina- 
 tion. 
 
 RULES FOR HEALTH IN CUBA. 
 
 Dear Sir: — 
 
 If you care to devote the space necessary for 
 the publication of this letter, which is the experi- 
 ence of my soldier's life in a tropical climate, 
 you may thereby render good service to our boys 
 in the army. I have for the lasi: eight years been 
 
Mistaken Conclusions. 41 
 
 with the Holland army in the East India archi- 
 pelago, and was always healthy. 
 
 Keep from drinking intoxicating liquors. Eat 
 as few vegetables as possible and not much 
 fruit. Never touch green fruits. Eat as little 
 meat as possible and don't eat pork. Eat 
 eggs if you can get them. The principal food 
 should be rice without milk or sugar, but with 
 a sauce made of red pepper or curry powder. 
 The rice should be washed till the floury sub- 
 stance is out of it, and it must not be boiled, 
 but steamed. 
 
 For cramps in the stomach take from ten to 
 fifteen drops of oil cajeput with from five to ten 
 drops of laudanum and a small dose of whiskey 
 or brandy. If the cramp is severe rub the 
 stomach with oil cajeput. Don't drink too much 
 water, but if you are in action or marching take 
 a small pebble, which will keep your mouth 
 moist. By following these rules our boys will 
 return well and hearty. 
 
 H. Van Zuilen. 
 
 *'And don't eat pork." The writer had good 
 and sufficient reasons for saying this, and we 
 should be glad if he had stated them, giving us 
 his philosophy. 
 
42 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 FEARFUL CASE OF EATING PORK BY A FARMER'S 
 
 FAMILY — WHICH IS ONLY THE STORY 
 
 OF THOUSANDS OF OTHERS. 
 
 In our younger life, we knew a farmer's fam- 
 ily, which from being farmers, always had a 
 surfeit of pork when the time of pig killing 
 came round. 
 
 Of course the children were feasted at these 
 times on fresh pork with all its parts and por- 
 tions, to say nothing of the adults, as well as 
 those good neighbors with whom these commodi- 
 ties had been exchanged as convenience and ac- 
 commodative remembrances suggested. 
 
 The neighbors — mostly . farmers — managed 
 their several times of pig-slaughtering, so that 
 between them all, they kept the precious skins 
 of the whole coterie distended with pork fat, 
 from the beginning of winter to its end. 
 
Fearful Case of Eating Pork. 43 
 
 They one and all had their fill of the deadly 
 stuff — of liver, steak, chops, sausage, plenty of 
 "good sweet, crisp crullers," pig ''squan," head- 
 cheese, and at the last of the winter, souse and 
 smoked hams. Nor do we omit mention of barrels 
 of fat pork, all cut up and salted down for use 
 during the year, until the time should come 
 around at the end of the following autumn for 
 repeating this avalanche of corruption. Almost 
 innumerable stone pots of lard, which had been 
 prepared for a twelve-months' use, were also very 
 much in evidence. 
 
 Of 'course the pestiferous food was sure to 
 seriously infect all who so plentifully partook 
 of it ; and what were the resulting consequences ? 
 
 The children of the family, it was well known, 
 were sadly afflicted with a most distressing raw- 
 ness of the whole surface of the flesh just be- 
 hind the ears. It was a disgusting sight as we 
 well remember, for it seemed, as the ear was 
 pressed forward that the raw flesh and the bare 
 muscles or cords were all exposed to view ; while 
 to be so afflicted must have been a most unhappy 
 thing to endure. These children when at school, 
 drew attention to their condition, telling the 
 cause — that "it arose from eating largely of 
 sausage" — which, to be sure, was putting it 
 somewhat mildly. 
 
44 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 From this attestation it is now clear, that the 
 people at home were very well aware of the 
 cause of the evil, and which fact alone is one 
 sufficient point in proof of the truth of our 
 strictures on pork eating. 
 
 If then, these children were filled to the burst- 
 ing point with lard, which worked out profusely 
 through the skin at only two visible places, what 
 are we to think of the remaining portions of the 
 body that were not apparently relieved of the 
 surcharge at all? 
 
 That their systems were filled with noxious 
 matter is not to be doubted — and that it was 
 working mischief if hindered in getting out is 
 true — while just here comes in the general in- 
 quiry regarding the diabolical, i. e., the polluting 
 of the moral nature through the physical, and 
 thence consequently the spiritual. 
 
 Of course it all acted upon the adults more 
 or less powerfully, according to physical condi- 
 tions. Those employed in the open air would 
 stand affected differently from those at work 
 in the shut up kitchen. Such as were possessed 
 of good muscular strength would be touched 
 dissimilarly to those of more slender build, while 
 in the case of those inheriting a strong, nervous 
 nature, further dissimilarity would also exist, 
 and of more serious character. 
 
Fearful Case of Eating Pork 45 
 
 As suggested, the question arises as to how 
 the taint of the physical through the unclean, 
 acts upon the moral and eventually on the spir- 
 itual nature. 
 
 That the moral is most sadly thus influenced, 
 cannot for a moment be doubted — evidence 
 enough we have of it — and if through degener- 
 acy of the physical and the moral, the spiritual 
 cannot be affected, then all hitherto have been 
 very much mistaken in conclusions. 
 
 The account here given of a single family, 
 is only that of thousands of others that have 
 lived on our broad and expanding domain for 
 nearly three hundred years, so that it is a fair 
 question to ask — what has not this astounding 
 evil done for the country during this time? 
 
 If the eating of swine flesh engenders ap- 
 petite for spirituous liquors in posterity, together 
 with accentuated animal propensities, both of 
 which are affirmed by authorities, is it any won- 
 der that our jails and prisons are, for the greater 
 part, filled with the poor and the uninformed 
 classes, when it is they, who, through pecuniary 
 necessity have been the greater consumers of 
 pork, and consequently its most serious victims? 
 All this being so, is it not high time that organi- 
 zations throughout the country were formed and 
 set to work, to the end of utterly banishing so 
 
46 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 vile a food, before still further dangers shall 
 have arisen therefrom? 
 
 The pig has universally been called ''the poor 
 man's friend," but alas, how deadly an enemy 
 does he prove to be in reality ? 
 
Philosophical. 47 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 PHILOSOPHICAL. 
 
 A LITTLE of philosophy may not be out of place 
 in a new chapter. 
 
 A man we will suppose, partakes of a hearty 
 dinner of pork and presently complains of feel- 
 ing queerly, or some other way, he '^cannot de- 
 scribe his feelings exactly"— though .thinking 
 people come to do so through sensitiveness or 
 tribulation — the trouble being, that he had in- 
 serted a substance into his stomach, a portion of 
 which in due time passed along into the circula- 
 tory system. 
 
 The blood then, being the life, and its purity in 
 a great measure our strength, we can easily com- 
 prehend how the feelings may be affected by 
 that of which the blood is composed. 
 
 But the pork influence, with all innocency, 
 having gotten into close relations with 
 the internal organism, is nov>^ exercising" 
 
48 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 its legitimate prerogatives by kicking up 
 high jinks in the blood. In other words, the 
 pig nature of the substance is manifesting 
 itself within the man, being something chem- 
 ically opposed to his nature. Hence, not only 
 the internal turmoil, but consequent gradual 
 degeneracy, according to quantities of the sub- 
 stance consumed — all this being in vivid contrast 
 with the operations of cleanly meats. 
 
Sad Case of a Young Girl. 49 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 SAD CASE OF A YOUNG GIRL. 
 
 The case of a young girl, of which we were 
 cognizant, who was thought to have either a 
 skin or blood disease — or both— was a sad one. 
 
 Through the eating of much pork, with accom- 
 panying gravies, her hands had become so habitu- 
 ally festered or suppurated — especially about the 
 fingers and the palms, with opened cracks in many 
 of the creases — as to have become a most fearful 
 affliction; besides being a very saddening sight 
 to look upon. 
 
 The horrible cause was not suspected by friends 
 or physicians, while the complaint continued to 
 hold on more or less for years. 
 
 How much of this sort of thing, it may be 
 asked, accounts for many unexplained cases which 
 come up from time to time, when a physician 
 seems powerless to cure, simply because the reve- 
 lation of causes is kept back, innocently, and 
 
50 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 sometimes otherwise. A medicine given for pol- 
 luted blood can be rendered non-effective with all 
 the ease in the world by stuffing one's self with 
 pork. 
 
Another Notable Case. 51 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 ANOTHER NOTABLE CASE. 
 
 Another family which we knew, that ate freely 
 of pork, swallowing a deal of pork gravy, was 
 affected differently from any yet mentioned. 
 
 Families will stand affected in this relation ac- 
 cording to idiosyncrasy, — ^that is, according to 
 physical make up — in delicacy of nerve, solidity 
 and robustness of physique, temperament, etc. 
 Occupation, too, whether active or sedentary — 
 the out-of-door habit always tending to work off 
 impurities in the system — most certainly has its 
 very potent influence on health. 
 
 The children of the family were affected with 
 eruptive sores on nearly all parts of the person 
 which suppurated, broke and scabbed, and as fast 
 as they healed, and even before, others in adjacent 
 places made their appearance. 
 
 Of course, the virulence of the complaint de- 
 pended upon the amount of pork ea^en and the 
 facility of eliminating it from the system. 
 
52 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 And just here it may be noted that the four 
 major and the four minor points of escape of 
 wornout and useless material from the person 
 are, through the bowels, the urine, the lungs 
 (gaseous) and the skin;— the minor points being 
 at the mouth, the nose, the ears and the eyes,— 
 amounts ejected through the skin being much 
 greater than is ordinarily suspected. 
 
 Some of us, too, get well along in years before 
 discovering that at the inner corner of the eye 
 are the little ducts that supply the lubricating fluid 
 necessary for the smooth and continual movement 
 of the eye-lid. 
 
 The disease clung to these children for years, 
 and they were treated by all methods that could 
 be thought of. Sulphur within was administered ; 
 roasting before the big fire-place with externally 
 applied brimstone was resorted to, but all to no 
 effect. Salves of all descriptions ; cream-of-tartar 
 and sulphur, mixed with a sweetened water as 
 drink were all of no avail. Everything that popu- 
 lar mention could suggest from far and near was 
 experimented with, until one M. D., according to 
 his best information, pronounced it seven-years- 
 itch. Still another physician, who enjoyed a high 
 reputation in all the country around, was so baf- 
 fled in his attempts at a cure, that in sheer desper- 
 ation he termed it 'The Devil's Itch." 
 
Another Notable Case. 53 
 
 But the vile cause was unsuspected by all ; — ■ 
 and if our pulpit teachings in earlier days had 
 been possessed of a small sprinkling of the Jewish 
 in place of the fatiguing twelfthlies and four- 
 teenthlies, the influence of our good Puritan di- 
 vines would have been still greater than it was. 
 
 It has been a source of wonder with some in 
 present time, that the pulpit essays so little iit 
 utterances relative to the physical, when in many 
 instances it is questionable eating that lies at the 
 bottom of the mischief in connection with dullness 
 in the pews. 
 
 A plenty of tea and coffee, with a profusion of 
 fat gravies, together with much eating, are not 
 conducive to healthful action of the liver; while 
 one who is suffering with torpidity of that organ 
 is apt to feel ''as if the bottom were dropping out" 
 of almost everything. 
 
 Physical exercise and abstinence from the use 
 of the above-named things, are the best antidotes 
 of the evils they produce. 
 
 These children, it may be said, all inherited a 
 very sensitive nature, with proclivity for skin 
 disease of some kind — without it were this very 
 pork eating which caused the diseased skin ; — at 
 any rate, they all "outgrew the disease" when 
 they outgrew the habit of eating pork. 
 
 Cause seems to produce effect universally. 
 
54 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 STILL ANOTHER CASE. 
 
 We happened about a year since to be in a 
 country place, when those we called upon relative 
 to business usually dined. We accepted an invi- 
 tation to tarry, when lo ! our friends, we found 
 had just passed through their annual pig-killing 
 period. 
 
 The atmosphere in parts of the house was preg- 
 nant with the odors of fresh-pork — and what a 
 sensation of warm, greasy, unripe meat was there ! 
 
 If it had been a week old and sprinkled with a 
 little salt, we could have more easily put up with 
 the conditions ; — and had we partaken of the pork, 
 it, to be sure, would have seemed a little better 
 than dog or cat, through associative sensations 
 when we were in the world — of pig. 
 
 Curiosity to catch the odor of unclean meats 
 may be satisfied at any time one cares to take a 
 sniff in any of the places where the festive ("all 
 
Still Another Case. 55 
 
 hot") frankfurter is sold which, as a rule, as has 
 been confirmed, is nothing more than dog-sausage, 
 horse, or other impure meat ; though the frank 
 and half- jocund soubriquet — dog — be applied to 
 it by the vender, for the purpose of diverting at- 
 tention from the real facts. Its odor betrays it. 
 
 CASE OF A FARMER IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTI- 
 CUT. 
 
 This very day we were told of a farmer m 
 northwestern Connecticut, who dearly liked his 
 fat pfork. "He would sit down and eat it in quan- 
 tities, enjoying it apparently as he could enjoy 
 nothing else." But, our informant admitted, upon 
 being closely questioned, that the man was most 
 sadly afflicted with rheumatism. 
 
 ONE MORE CASE. 
 
 A lady with whom we have long been ac- 
 quainted, and whom we knew had abandoned the 
 use of pork, writes, stating that at the time of 
 giving it up, she was influenced to do so by the 
 imperative directions of her physician, who said 
 "that for her to use pork was rank poison," from 
 the fact of having a taint of erysipelas in the 
 
56 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 blood. The query here comes in, whether the 
 erysipelas itself was not a taint — or worse — con- 
 tracted long ago from the impurities contained in 
 pork? 
 
Melancholy Case of a Farmer. 57 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE MELANCHOLY CASE OF A FARMER OF NEW 
 
 JERSEY. 
 
 A GENIAL old man who worked a large farm in 
 the vState of New Jersey, having a family of 
 grov/n up sons, was sadly given to the over-in- 
 dulgence in cold, boiled, fat pork, which had been 
 *'salted down." He was a corpulent old fellow 
 and was universally liked, while as he advanced 
 in years he increased in weight. 
 
 Truth to tell, however, his four sons grown to 
 man's estate, stahvart and intelligent, took most 
 sadly to drinking whiskey. On their way home 
 from their daily labors, they, every night, one 
 and all must tarry, in order to have their re- 
 spective glass of the ardent ; — while before start- 
 ing out again, the second full glass forsooth must 
 be indulged in, ere their inherent cravings were 
 satisfied. 
 
 Results of breaking down in health before at- 
 
58 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 taining to middle life are entirely unnecessary to 
 record. It is enough to state that a lifelong habit 
 of indulgence in polluting food by the sire, mani- 
 fested its evil effects later in the sons, which was 
 a decidedly inbred appetite for spirituous liquors. 
 
 The theory of thus affecting offspring in the 
 extreme use of pork by parents, is testified by 
 one authority, — while another states tliat it would 
 seem to be a most rational result. 
 
 If then, this is a fair example of that which the 
 eating of pork by man will do for offspring, is it 
 any wonder as we scan the horizon of Temperance 
 work during the last thirty years, that so little 
 apparent headway has been made In this time, and, 
 too, that the laborers in the cause have had such 
 up-hill work of it? Is it not also a hint to them 
 to cut off a branch of the mischief by beginning 
 work at this late day at the proper place, to wit — 
 the pork barrel ? 
 
Salt Rheum and Erysipelas. 59 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 SALT RHEUM AND ERYSIPELAS. 
 
 There are medical writers who state that salt 
 rheum and erysipelas are complaints which phy- 
 sicians as a rule are puzzled in getting to the bot- 
 tom of — that the real causes of the same are un- 
 known. 
 
 Let such investigate still closer and then say 
 whether or not the poisons contained in the 
 various grades of pork and the breeding of disease 
 into disease by the use of the same, even in the 
 continuous consumption of small quantities from 
 day to day, have not played an important part in 
 causing these tenacious disorders ; — and truly, if 
 the sins of the fathers are ever visited upon the 
 children, those in this relation of pork eating must 
 certainly be so accounted. 
 
 And are you, young man, and young woman, 
 going to taint your precious blood with such a 
 substance, for those of the future to be borne 
 down with ? 
 
69 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 There has been a growing disposition for a 
 number of years, in what has been called the 
 nervous zone or belt of our country, for a cer- 
 tain class of young men to care little, as they say, 
 for the welfare of posterity, so long as they them- 
 selves get "well fixed." 
 
 The reasons for this are many, aside from the 
 mad rush for money and success, — to wit, discon- 
 tent, selfishness, dissipation and the outgrowing 
 of old-fashioned Americanism. The mis-appre- 
 ciation, too, of money-making and money-loving 
 employers, of some in their hire who are pos- 
 sessed of the finer traits of character combined 
 with the best intentions — particularly young me- 
 chanics and young clerks, is many times nowa-* 
 days especially a serious cause of dejection. 
 
 But some, no doubt, will say, that under pres- 
 ent conditions, all this must be so ; — and without 
 doubt, we are, in these later times, in a kmd of 
 transition state, socially and otherwise; while it 
 does not just yet appear to what the evolution 
 tends. 
 
 However all this may be, who shall say but that 
 the abuses of health presently named, are not im- 
 portant factors also of the dejective and degen- 
 lerative conditions among the classes referred 
 
What They Say. 61 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 WHAT THEY SAY. 
 
 A FORMER judge says : 'The early New Eng- 
 land farmers were inordinately addicted to the 
 use of pork, — it was their staple in the way of 
 fresh meat, and between the fresh and that which 
 had been salted, together with bacon and ham, it 
 was present with them from one year's end to 
 the other.'' 
 
 A good Baptist deacon states, "that he now re- 
 fuses to have the stuff in the house." 
 
 A gentleman tells us in a confidential way that 
 he eats but very little pork as compared with what 
 he formerly used, confining himself now to a little 
 ham and bacon. 
 
 Another testifies that he "long ago shut down 
 on having it much about the house." 
 
 A physician says : "It isn't fit to eat ; we scarcely 
 ever have it at the house now, except occasionally 
 v/h^n the women order a little." 
 
62 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 An intelligent lady, a trained nurse, says : "I 
 cannot like pork because I disapprove of eating it. 
 There is no nourishment in the substance ; besides, 
 it is not a cleanly meat." 
 
 Here was one who did not like pork because it 
 was improper food. The way of the majority is 
 the reverse, — if a particular thing is fancied by 
 them they will indulge in its use to their decided 
 injury. 
 
 And now, is it not clear that it is the poor, who 
 have but little access to books, as well as the 
 unenlightened, who care but little for them, wdio 
 are "going to get left" in this matter, — and what, 
 my practical reader, can be done for them ? 
 
Solid Testimony. 63 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 SOLID TESTIMONY BY DOCTOR FRELIGH, AND 
 DOCTOR MARCY.* 
 
 In recording further testimony sustaining our 
 position, we now come to that of Doctor M. Fre- 
 Hgh, and Doctor E. E. Marcy; two late eminent 
 homeopathic physicians of New York City; — the 
 former noted as a vohiminous and scientific 
 wTiter, as well as a general practitioner ; and the 
 latter, long and well known for practical and pro- 
 fessional acumen ; — also as a noted author, both 
 within and outside his profession. 
 
 We may say at the outset, that it is a satisfac- 
 tion to read such outspoken truths from the writ- 
 ings of these eminent physicians, respecting this 
 fearful evil. 
 
 After treating at some length of scrofula and 
 its causes, Dr. Freligh goes on to write of un- 
 
 * Doctor E. E. Marcy died on Dec. 28, 1900, 
 
64 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 wholesome foods as follows: — (p. 387 of his 
 "Practice of Medicine," 13th edition.) 
 
 ''Under deficient and unwholesome foods, 
 pork is the most prominent cause. I will here 
 take the liberty of quoting at large from Dr. 
 Marcy's 'Practice of Medicine,' to illustrate a 
 principle more in conformity with my own views 
 as regards the nature and free use of swine 
 flesh as an article of food, than anything I have 
 yet seen upon the subject. 
 
 " 'Its impurity consists of a disorder of a pure- 
 ly scrofulous character, which is inherent and 
 peculiar to it, and is constantly being developed, 
 especially during confinement and subjection to 
 the ordinary modes of feeding. Probably no 
 animal is more filthy in its habits, or more dis- 
 gusting for its selection of food. Let the pork 
 eater contemplate an instant, the customary mode 
 of rearing the domestic swine, and observe what 
 offal, filth, putridity, scourings from everything 
 foul and corrupt, which constantly swell his dis- 
 eased carcass. Let him see in the slaughter house 
 how often the internal organs and the surface of 
 the vile carcasses will be studded with tubercu- 
 losis formations, or scrofula, and then return to 
 pork, like a dog to his vomit, if he chooses. It 
 is absurd to argue that flesh contaminated with 
 the scrofulous miasm cannot communicate to thi 
 
Solid Testimony. 65 
 
 healthy body, after digestion, its morbid parti- 
 cles/ As previously stated," continues Dr. Fre- 
 ligh, — "the above is in strict accordance with my 
 own views, and I will ask further, is it possible 
 that the internal organs of an animal can be com- 
 pletely studded with scrofulous tumors and in- 
 durations, simply as a local affection, independent 
 of a general diathesis? — and in the absence of 
 fact, is it not reasonable to infer, that when we 
 partake of food thus contaminated, it must neces- 
 sarily convey to our system an impurity not 
 greatly dissimilar to the diathesis of the animal 
 from which the flesh was taken? 
 
 "It is only necessary to refer to a chapter on 
 animal poisons, in any of our works upon Tox- 
 icology, to prove the absurdity of supposing that 
 washing, curing, and cooking and digesting, will 
 destroy the noxious quality of impure or contam- 
 inated flesh. 
 
 "It is further asserted by very respectable au- 
 thority, that not a single case of Lepra vulgaris 
 ever occurred, which could not be distinctly 
 traced to the eating of swine flesh." 
 
66 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING QUOTATIONS. 
 
 LEPROSY. 
 
 Now let US put this that the doctors have said 
 in our pipes and smoke it ; — dream over it, — 
 consider it well and ruminate over the matter if 
 we but will ; — for what can a rational person ask 
 further? Can any waver in their belief after read- 
 ing testimony so weighty, and from authorities 
 so eminent? 
 
 Further attempts on our own part would seem 
 almost useless, except for the purpose of accentu- 
 ation ! 
 
 But Doctor Freligh gives us a hint respecting 
 another disease, to wit. Leprosy. It is asserted, 
 he says, by very respectable authority, ''that not 
 a single case of Lepra vulgaris, (common lep- 
 rosy) ever occurred, which conld not be distinctly 
 traced to the eating of swine flesh." 
 
 This is a strong and startling statement; for 
 
Leprosy. 67 
 
 leprosy is a disease which in the present condition 
 of the country will soon have to be most seriously 
 reckoned with. 
 
 Here are Rheumatism, Leprosy, Consumption, 
 Cancer, Whiskey-drinking, Scrofula and other 
 things, the cardinal diseases and vices of our 
 country, all partially springing from one abom- 
 inable source ! 
 
 It is not only astounding but overwhelming, for 
 it is now a conceded fact that leprosy is slowly 
 creeping over the country from rreny directions. 
 
 It may be inquired, why, if the cause of leprosy 
 is pork-eating — which has been a national sin for 
 so long a time — why is the country not overrun 
 with the disease, rather than, that it is only now 
 being slowly brought upon us? 
 
 The answer may be given that time is required 
 for this or any similarly acting disorder to get a 
 universal foothold. 
 
 Our country, too, being less than three hundred 
 years old, we may ask if the far East was overrun 
 with leprosy during any period of three hundred 
 years? And if the cause of the disease, or one of 
 its causes, is the eating of swine flesh, it may be 
 suesrested whether the tremendous influx of this 
 commodity during the last thirty years is not 
 the one great cause of the sudden increase of 
 leprosy? It looks very much like it. 
 
68 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 There are as yet only four or five leper colonies 
 and hospitals in the country— though it is noticed 
 that one of the Southern States is now clamoring 
 for another.* A very few years ago there were 
 none at all. 
 
 Total degeneracy on any line requires time for 
 accomplishment ; but when it at last prevails, then 
 look out — for it will require a vast deal more time 
 for its eradication than was taken in the growth. 
 
 It is too much the American way in public 
 afiPairs to *1ock the stable door after the horse has 
 been stolen." Then generally conies practical re- 
 form. But why wait until we are fairly rotten 
 with disease before taking action against it? 
 Better by far to nip the matter in the bud. 
 
 Leprosy, according to authorities, ''is common 
 to both hot and cold climates— is caused by bad 
 drainage, dampness, miasm, ill nourishment, etc." 
 
 It is also stated that it is imported along with 
 immigrants from leprous countries. 
 
 Some affirm it to be contagious but not heredi- 
 tary, while other writers claim it as hereditary 
 though not contagious ;— but with Dr. Freligh's 
 statement, that ''it is asserted by very respectable 
 authority that not a single case of Lepra vulgaris 
 ever occurred, which could not be traced to the 
 
 * The Southerners consume quantities of ham and 
 bacon. 
 
Leprosy. 69 
 
 eating of swine flesh," — we at once have some- 
 thing positive, rational and probable ; and so long 
 as there is this emphatic and responsible affirm- 
 ation, with endorsement, it would seem to be the 
 part of wisdom to heed the declaration. 
 
 It would be the most natural thing in the world 
 for the disease to come from China, for there it is 
 generated."^ 
 
 "Imported along with immigrants from leprous 
 countries" ? — seems rational ; because the East is 
 more or less full of it. ^'Caused by miasm, damp- 
 ness and so forth"? — well, in the absence of a 
 knowledge of the pollutive nature of pork by 
 many more than seven-eighlhs of the people of 
 the world — to what else could it have been more 
 conveniently ascribed than to the things named ? — 
 while possibly they are also real causes. 
 
 There seems to be little testimony in medical 
 works and encyclopaedias of leprosy and cancer 
 as proceeding from the influence of pork. 
 
 Dr. Freligh's assertion of leprosy is positive 
 and significant. Dr. Dowie's testimonies of can- 
 cer cannot be passed over lightly, as he evidently 
 has had large experience, with critical observa- 
 tion ;t — so that, if the world generally has scarcely 
 begun to come to a knowled^fe of the Dollutive 
 
 * See quotation of Chinese Leprosy, p. 89. 
 f See pages 108, 109 and no. 
 
70 
 
 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 nature of pork, and, as possibly exemplified in 
 leprosy and cancer, it would seem, in just these 
 times, to be the part of wisdom for the General 
 Government to appoint a corps of medical experts, 
 to enter into a practical and thorough investiga- 
 tion of the whole matter. 
 
 'There are 131,618 lepers in India" — says the 
 World Almanac— '9S,SS2 males and 32,636 fe- 
 males. No other country in the world approaches 
 India in this respect." 
 
 The following comes to us later and from the 
 New York Tribune: — 
 
 Washington, March 24, 1902.— The Secretary 
 of the Treasury to-day sent to the Senate the re- 
 port of a commission of medical officers of the 
 Marine Hospital Service appointed to investigate 
 the origin and prevalence of leprosy in the United 
 States. The report shows 278 cases of leprosy in 
 the United States, distributed by States as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Alabama 
 California 
 ■Florida . . 
 Georgia . 
 Illinois . . 
 
 I 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 I 
 
 5 
 
Leprosy. 71 
 
 Iowa J. 
 
 Louisiana , j-- 
 
 Maryland j 
 
 Massachusetts 2 
 
 Minnesota 20 
 
 Mississippi - 
 
 Missouri - 
 
 Montana 
 
 Nevada 
 
 New York ^ 
 
 North JJakota * jg 
 
 Oreofon 
 
 ^ I 
 
 Pennsylvania , - 
 
 South Dakota j 
 
 Texas 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 o 
 
 Of the total number, 176 are males and 102 fe- 
 males; 145 American born, 120 foreign born, 
 and the remainder uncertain. It is said that 186 
 of the cases were contracted in the United States, 
 but the opinion is expressed by the commission 
 that this number is too large, and that some of 
 these cases were brought from abroad. 
 
 The commission says that the number of cases 
 is smaller than has been generally believed^ It 
 is also said that l eprosy is conveyed from one per- 
 * It has been reported as high as 900. 
 
72 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 son to another in the United States, such con- 
 veyance being most markedly noticeable in the 
 States on the Southern coast ; that a large major- 
 ity of the cases in the United States (33 per cent.) 
 are at large ; that at present only seventy-two of 
 the cases are isolated and provided for by the 
 States or cities in which they are located, and that 
 many of those now at large, if not all, would be 
 willing to be cared for by the public if proper 
 provision existed for their treatment and comfort. 
 The commission recommends the establishment 
 df a retreat for lepers, and expresses the opinion 
 that it should be in the arid Southwest, or in a 
 similar region further north, or on an island in the 
 Gulf of Mexico, or on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Of the 155 cases reported from Louisiana, loi 
 are in New Orleans County and 37 in the leper 
 home at Iberville. Of the seven cases in New 
 York, four are in Kings County and three in New- 
 York County. The commission expresses the 
 opinion that the figures do not represent the total 
 number of lepers in the country, because the 
 loathsome character of the disease causes persons 
 affected to conceal it as long as possible. It is 
 also said that the disease is most frequently con- 
 tracted by inhaling dust where lepers have been 
 located. 
 
A Bad Dose. 73 
 
 CHAPTER XXL 
 
 A BAD DOSE. 
 
 Dr. Dio Lewis in his 'Talks About People's 
 Stomachs," made many truthful and witty ob- 
 servations. 
 
 It is asked in one chapter, "What viler mixture 
 could there be for one's breakfast than coffee, 
 fried ham and buckwheat cakes?*' 
 
 Some may wish to inquire, why so? Because, 
 first, coffee is very severe on the nerves ; and. Dr. 
 Coles, in his book on coffee, states : "The injuri- 
 ous effects on the nerves, of coffee and whiskey 
 respectively in equal degrees of strength, is much 
 greater from the use of coffee." (Let it be 
 noted.) 
 
 The nervous system being in a sense about all 
 there is to the man, when this is gone he falls 
 into a state of pretty general collapse. 
 
 Fried ham ? Well, we need say nothing of ham 
 just here, for it is pork, which is sufficient; but 
 
74 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 as for buckwheat, it causes Intense itching in 
 the very pigs when fed to them. The humans 
 can abundantly testify the same in their own ex- 
 perience with it. 
 
 "Buckwheat is very much lacking in nutritive 
 qualities such as starch, sugar, etc. ;" while for 
 the poor, the amount of nourishment afforded by 
 it is so little as compared with its cost — which 
 is small — where is the good of wearing away the 
 internal machinery by putting so useless an in- 
 gredient into the human hopper when little benefit 
 of any kind results therefrom? 
 
 It is doubtless a fact, that the substances we 
 eat and drink, not possessing elements of which 
 the body is composed, had best be abstained from 
 altogether; without they are taken medicinally 
 as correctives or for similar purposes ; indeed, 
 it becomes a question whether it would not be 
 positively injurious to take such useless sub- 
 stances into the system. No thinking person, it 
 would seem, could wish to do this knowingly, for 
 he or she may find edibles in plenty which are 
 beneficial without taxing the digestive powers to 
 no effectual good. 
 
 In this category can be placed tea, coffee, pork, 
 buckwheat, tomatoes, alcohol, cucumbers, string 
 beans and other things ; while sawdust might as 
 .Well be included as being on about the same foot- 
 
A Bad Dose. 75 
 
 ing. Wl.at is the difference, it may be asked, 
 between the woody fibre in string beans and that 
 in sawdust? 
 
 Dr. Lewis gives a list of meats in the order of 
 their capacity for brain support as follows : Beef 
 is the first named as the best and most potent. 
 Next comes veal, which seems a little odd, as 
 there are many who consider veal as hardly fit 
 to eat — nevertheless, the doctor speaks of ''fitness 
 for brain support." Mutton and lamb are rated 
 as next in value, while pork, it is stated, ''has 
 about nothing for the brain." 
 
76 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 THE squire's indigestion. 
 
 A GOOD story from Dr. Lewis we take the liber- 
 ty of quoting : 
 
 ''Old Squire H was a very successful and 
 
 substantial farmer in an interior town of Massa- 
 chusetts, and a more amazing eater never lived in 
 any town anywhere. And especially much did he 
 eat when fresh pork was to be his nourishment. 
 Well, at a certain time one of his hogs had been 
 killed. The next morning there was fresh pork 
 for breakfast, and the old man ate most won- 
 drously. In the course of the forenoon he ate his 
 luncheon, consisting of bread and butter, mince^pie 
 and cheese. At noon his dinner consisted of fresh 
 pork, pickles, mince pie, and the usual accom- 
 paniments. His afternoon luncheon was like that 
 of the forenoon. When he came home to supper 
 his favorite dish had not been prepared as part of 
 the meal. The old man fretted and scolded till 
 
The Squire's Indigestion, 77 
 
 fresh pork had been added to the substantials. 
 He ate voraciously as usual. In the evening he 
 toasted some cheese, buttered and ate it. Just 
 before going to bed, he roasted a couple of apples 
 and ate them. In the night he was taken with a 
 severe colic. The doctor was with him till morn- 
 ing, and nearly wrought a miracle in the old man's 
 
 life. The next day Bolles W , one of his 
 
 neighbors, went in to condole with the old squire. 
 
 '' Taithful Bolles,' said the old worthy, T like 
 to have died last night. I'll never eat another 
 roast apple as long as I live. I never did like 
 them very well, and last night I ate only two, 
 and they nearly killed me.' " 
 
78 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 TAPE-WORM. 
 
 Following is a most practical and scientific ac- 
 count of the development of the tape-worm, writ- 
 ten by an English physician. The delicacy of 
 statement and mastery of idea, will render it in- 
 teresting to various classes of readers : 
 
 How THE Tape-Worm is Developed in the 
 Hog and Transferred to Man. 
 
 The common tape-worm of man {Taenia 
 solium) consists of a very minute "head," at- 
 taching itself by suckers and hooks to a man's 
 intestines ; of a slender "neck," and of hundreds 
 of "joints." Each "joint" is really a semi-inde- 
 pendent animal ; and the tape-worm is, therefore, 
 a compound animal, and presents us with a colony 
 of similar beings. A large tape-worm may 
 measure twenty or thirty feet ; and new joints are 
 
Tape-Worm. 79 
 
 continually being "budded" out from the head and 
 neck. 'Hence the physician can never be sure that 
 he has cured a case of tape-worm until he has 
 seen the head and neck of the animal. If a man 
 swallowed the tgg of a tape-worm, he would not 
 be infested thereby. The young worm has to 
 pass its early life in the body of another warm- 
 blooded animal ; and in the case of a common 
 tape-worm, it is ''the gintleman that pays the rint" 
 which acts the part of nurse or first host. Man, 
 in other words, obtains his common tape-worm 
 guest from the pig. When this animal swallows 
 the egg of a tape-worm, the young worm bursts 
 through the egg-case and bores its way to the 
 pig's muscles. If the porker is affected by nu- 
 merous embryos, that is, if it has swallowed a 
 large number of eggs, it will become feverish and 
 ill, and it will then be said to have developed 
 "measles." The "measles" of the pig are the vis- 
 itations of young tape-worms. In the muscles of 
 the pig, then, these young worms rest. J'y suis; 
 fy reste, is decidedly the motto of the young 
 worm. It develops a little head and neck, and it 
 also, by way of a tail, produces a little bladder or 
 bag. Before naturalists knew its true nature it 
 was regarded as a special kind of parasite, and 
 was named a "cystic worm." 
 
 If the pig dies a natural death and is respecta- 
 
80 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 bly interred, or if the pig should Hve long enough 
 these youthful tape-worms will respectively per- 
 ish or will degenerate and disappear from the 
 tissues of the aged porker. But assuming that 
 the usual Nem.esis of the pig race overtakes the 
 animal, then in the form of pork, it will gladden 
 the heart of certain m.embers of the human race. 
 Now, let us suppose that a man eats a portion 
 of the "measly pork." Let us further suppose 
 that the pork has been imperfectly cooked ; then 
 comes the "tide of fortune" to the young worms. 
 For when the young worm has been eaten by the 
 man the bladder-tail drops off. Each little head 
 and neck finding itself in the human, recognizes 
 its lawful habitat. Each attaches itself to the 
 lining membrane of the human intestines and each 
 by a process of budding produces joint after joint, 
 until man is presented with his matured "guest." 
 The great lesson to be learned from our survey 
 of parasites is care in the choice and increased 
 care in the cooking of our food. It should be 
 remembered that the germs of these parasites art 
 killed by a sufficiently long exposure to heat. 
 Hence, while underdone meat may have its 
 charms, it has likewise its grave dangers. Pork 
 in any and every fashion, should at all times be 
 thoroughly cooked. In this latter case, the para- 
 sitic horde may not merely be destroyed, but may 
 
Tape-Worm. 81 
 
 even contribute in a microscopic way to human 
 nutrition. — Dr. Andrezu Wilson, F. R. S. F. 
 
 Dr. J. Ellis, an eminent authority, states: — that, 
 "undoubtedly the most frequent cause of tape- 
 worm in man, is the use of measly pork, which 
 contains these worms in one stage of their de- 
 velopment. If fresh measly pork is fed to the 
 dog, tape-worms are developed in his intestines, 
 and if joints of the tape-worm, which contain 
 ova or eggs, at maturity, are fed to the pig, they 
 cause measly pork. 
 
 "Tape-worms are quite common in dogs and 
 various other animals, and it is supposed also, 
 that they may sometimes be developed in the in- 
 testines of man by his swallowing their eggs 
 which are voided by such animals, in his food and 
 drink. 
 
 *^ He * * * ]3ut it is undoubtedly true, that 
 man contracts tape-worm far more frequently 
 by eating imperfectly cooked flesh of animals, 
 generally of the pig, which contains them in a 
 stage of imperfect development." 
 
82 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 A SHORT CHAPTER WORTH READING. 
 ONION. 
 
 Doctor G. M. Beard, whose work is published 
 by the Putnams, of New York, says : 
 
 ''The bacon of England and Ireland is superior 
 to that of America, but it is nowhere the best kind 
 of meat. It contains so much fat that only the 
 hardy can digest it in large quantities. 
 
 '•'Pork, fresh or salted, is an article of diet that 
 ought to disappear — and is disappearing before 
 civilization. 
 
 "For centuries it constituted the leading article 
 in the dietary of Europe, but with the advance of 
 culture and improvement in the race, the desire 
 for it is diminished. So thoroughly unfashion- 
 able is even fresh pork in our large cities, that a 
 hotel or boarding-house that should provide din- 
 ner in which pork should be the only meat, 
 
Onion. 83 
 
 would soon be empty ; while fried salted pork is 
 reserved for the especially poor." 
 
 This is pretty hard on the poor, to be sure. And 
 as a substitute for pork, let the poor — or any — re- 
 sort to the onion as food ; which, variously 
 treated, alone or in combination with other 
 things, both animal and vegetable, as ingenuity 
 may suggest, is more strengthening and health- 
 giving, a hundred times over, than pork or any 
 other meat. 
 
 They are beneficial fried, roasted, baked or 
 boiled ; but in the raw state are too hard of diges- 
 tion, and too forceful of odor for most people. 
 
 The sensitive and the weakly may be cautioned 
 about taking too strong a do'se for the nerves to 
 bear. 
 
 And with regard to odor, it is believed there is 
 none proceeding from any of them, with the ex- 
 ception of those eaten in the raw condition ; and 
 further, that a glass of milk will prove an anti- 
 dote in any case. 
 
 Onion is one of the greatest health and nerve 
 strengtheners of any food that can be named ; 
 but for a steady diet should not be used in large 
 quantities. It is at once stimulative and soothing 
 ■ — a rare combination of qualities. 
 
84 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 A favor may be conferred by the benevolent 
 upon any who are unable to buy books — provided 
 they are not aware of the facts— by imparting to 
 them this statement of the onion. 
 
The Chinese Nation and Leprosy. 85 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 THE CHINESE NATION AND CHINESE LEPROSY. 
 
 If it is thought that the eating of unclean 
 things from generaj;ion to generation can be in- 
 dulged in without evil results, then let us direct 
 our pointed attention to the Chinese nation and 
 note what we find. 
 
 And who, among the older readers of this page, 
 does not remember that familiar wood-cut in the 
 school books of many years ago : "A Chmaman 
 selling rats and puppies for pies"? This, no 
 doubt, was representative of existing conditions, 
 as the Chinese are reputed to have eaten all sorts 
 of revolting things— serpent, lizard, rat, toad, cat, 
 snail and pig— presumably everything they could 
 well lay their hands to. 
 
 This is almost, universally their reputation at 
 the present time, and what results are reported? 
 Not only a flabby, unhealthful and spiritless na- 
 
86 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 tion, but one having a sallow tinge of the color 
 of the skin besides — so much so that they are 
 called the yellow men of the world. 
 
 Can it be that they have so become, from the 
 effects of unclean eating throughout the cen- 
 turies ? 
 
 Stranger things there might be than this. 
 
 It is said of the fishes in the pools of the 
 Mammoth Cave, that through the necessitated 
 disuse of their eyes, they in time came to have no 
 eyes at all; only the blank suggestion of that 
 which once was — and why should not a long con- 
 tinued abuse of some of the internal organs — the 
 liver in particular — come at last to be a kind of 
 second nature, even if the liver be somewhat ab- 
 normal in action. 
 
 The Chinese whom we are accustomed to see 
 in our country, give the impression of possessing 
 neither ruggedness nor health. Compare them, 
 for example, with the powerful North American 
 Indian, formerly — and now, in many instances — 
 so full of character and integrity ; with whom and 
 the Chinese, some of the older historians tell of 
 possible race connections. It is doubtful if he was 
 addicted to eating the unclean— without it were 
 wild game— though in this connection some of his 
 enemies like to charge the canine against him. 
 But where, it may be asked, is there any account 
 
The Chinese Nation and Leprosy. 87 
 
 of his having inherited either Bible or Bible teach- 
 ing? His behef in, and worship of the "Great 
 Spirit," as well as the hope for existence after 
 death in the "Happy Hunting Grounds," were 
 vastly nearer the correct than any other heathen 
 or savage ever approached. 
 
 The Christian practically had the law of clean 
 and unclean laid down for him good and strong, 
 but he seemed either to overlook or disdain it; 
 while the Israelite, as he scans the situation, can 
 now afford to stand and laugh in his sleeve. 
 
 What Confucius may have said for the Chinese 
 in this relation, if anything, is obscure; but in 
 all probability one thing is quite certain — that 
 had they always been correct in their alimentary 
 usage, they would not in their late unpleasant- 
 ness with the spirited "Jap" have fallen so easy a 
 prey to his wiles as they did. Forty millions set- 
 ting at naught four hundred millions, seems to 
 have been ''about the size of it ;" and with the sea 
 between them at that! 
 
 Can it be doubted that the Chinese through 
 improper alimentary habits, have so degenerated 
 as to be unable to stand successfully against a 
 foe? For it is inconceivable that they have al- 
 ways existed in their present condition. 
 
88 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 Witness then the alert, intelUgent, island in- 
 habiting Japanese, and the sturdy beef-eating 
 John Bull, also an island inhabiter ; both are con- 
 stantly subjected to those vital and life-giving 
 products of the sea — iodine and phosphorus — 
 together with the purifying and tonic effects of 
 salt, and especially of the salty breezes of the 
 ocean. These chemicals, one and all, are most 
 strengthening to the human system, and, when 
 fenjoyed in combination, as is the case with the 
 island inhabiters generally — are trebly so. 
 
 All these, we fancy, together with hard work 
 and correct habits, will combine to make what is 
 termed the Iron Constitution ; not only in present 
 time but especially in posterity. 
 
 Inherent toughness of nerve is worth more 
 than toughness of muscle. Toughness of muscle 
 is a good thing to be possessed of, but is good for 
 very little after the nerves have finally given out. 
 
 As a rule those who proceed to get up their 
 health, "go in" at once for muscular improvement 
 —most excellent, to be sure— but how few seem 
 to care to understand the nerves ! 
 
 It is intensely American to be continually con- 
 spiring with the Evil One, for the purpose of 
 breaking down the Nervous System — so it would 
 seem. 
 
The Chinese Nation and Leprosy. 89 
 
 The Israelites and the Chinese appear to have 
 been in their dietary habits, totally antipodal ; the 
 former keeping steadfastly to the clean, the latter 
 to the unclean ; and what is the respective out- 
 come ? 
 
 With the Jews we find their women ''have the 
 most healthful and handsome appearing com- 
 plexions of the daughters of earth;" wliile the 
 men, it is said, are never known to Lave skin dis- 
 ease — presumably those arising from eating the 
 unclean— without it be the renegade Jews, who 
 are comparatively few in numbers, and who eat 
 pork; for there must necessarily be exceptions 
 to all rules. 
 
 The Chinese, on the other hand, are reputed — 
 as has been stated — to be in the habit of eating 
 many vile things, while they, more than others, 
 *'are afflicted with the most insidious forms of 
 leprosy, the most difficult of eradication," and 
 this quotation tells their whole sad story. 
 
 Since writing the last few pages we came upon 
 an extended article on China, from which we 
 briefly quote : 
 
 'The average Chinaman has lost mental initia- 
 tive, and the moral forces which once shaped 
 China, having utterly decayed, are to-day inert." 
 
90 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 Here we have it — China to-day is not what she 
 was in ancient times either in mental grasp or 
 moral power. The reasons, without doubt, are 
 physical, through ignorance of a proper dietary. 
 
Law Against Sale of Hoi?se Meat. 91 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 HORSE MEAT. 
 LAW IN NEW YORK AGAINST ITS SALE. 
 
 It is perfectly fruitless argument to attempt 
 to maintain, that because any particular animal 
 eats cleanly things only, that its flesh conse- 
 quently becomes a cleanly article of food. Most 
 certainly, according to common thinking it would 
 seem so to be ; and that cleanly ingredients should 
 produce results to correspond, would appear to 
 have common sense to bear out the supposition. 
 
 As a matter of fact, however, this is not the 
 
 case. 
 
 The most that can be said of it perhaps is, that 
 the eventual production, i.e., the animal flesh, will 
 be that which the nature of the animal operating 
 causes it to be; the cleanly animal producing 
 cleanly meat, and the unclean one, the uncleanly ; 
 although both may eat the same kinds of food. 
 
92 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 From this seemingly there is no appeal. 
 
 It is also clear, that the different characteristics 
 of clean and unclean, must, in the economy of 
 nature, have their respective utilities. 
 
 The horse, then, of all other animals, is the 
 most particular about his food of any we now 
 remember. 
 
 His is a rational diet of oats, corn, grass, 
 vegetables and hay — the purest in his eating of 
 all the animals ; while of that which he drinks he 
 is most fastidious — no slops, no muddy or impure 
 water for him — no, no. 
 
 Yet horse meat is not fit to eat ! 
 
 It is unclean because it was created so to be. 
 
 The horse neither chews the cud nor divides the 
 hoof. 
 
 The French people, it is said, eat many vile 
 things. 
 
 Whether they learned to eat horse meat during 
 the siege of Paris when they were so shut in that 
 proper food was not obtainable, does not appear; 
 but if so, and they learned the lesson so well that 
 they now have no compunctions about continuing 
 the little game, may account for the following 
 
Law Against Sale of Horse Meat. 93 
 
 statement which we read in a pubhc print in the 
 year 1900: 
 
 'The Parisian shambles received and consumed 
 in a single year the following items : 
 
 ''26,66y horses for slaughter, 52 mules and 31 
 donkeys. 
 
 ''One mule and 13 donkeys, with 734 horses 
 were condemned as unfit for human food. 
 
 "Retail prices in the markets were as follows: 
 
 "For prime cut of horse, 18 cents per pound. 
 
 "For steaks, 10 cents per pound/' 
 
 The attempts which have been made at various 
 times in New York City to foist horse meat upon 
 the market have met with decided rebuff from the 
 authorities — to their praise be it said — but it is 
 strongly hinted among certain dealers in related 
 things, that the evil has not yet been wholly 
 stamped out. 
 
 Should it be found by any as being practiced 
 "on the sly," such would confer a favor on the 
 community generally by reporting the same to 
 either a leading newspaper or to the proper 
 officials.* 
 
 A word of disinterested evidence touching the 
 
 * We have lately been informed that a deal of horse 
 meat is sold in New York under the guise of smoked 
 beef, and which is much more tender than the genuine. 
 
94 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 subject, is taken from an evening paper, and as 
 follows : 
 
 The Relief of Ladysmith. 
 
 Durban, March 2, 1900. — The newspaper cor- 
 respondents who have reached here from Lady- 
 smith say that the enthusiasm of the garrison 
 and inhabitants of the besieged town was intense 
 when the relieving column entered. Men left the 
 hospital and even the women and children went 
 forth to greet the newcomers. It was noticeable, 
 however, that the latter were the more demonstra- 
 tive, cheering the women and children whom they 
 were proud to have saved. 
 
 Sad sights were often witnessed when the 
 sparse rations were being drawn. Children would 
 pathetically seek milk for their sick mothers. The 
 women and children were estimated at five hun- 
 dred. Though there zvas much sickness arising 
 from the horse meat diet and the absence of fari- 
 naceous food, the epidemic period was passed 
 safely. 
 
 "Much sickness arising from the horse meat 
 dietr Why so, if the meat is a proper food? 
 
Law Against Sale of Horse Meat. 95 
 
 Law in New York City Against the Sale of 
 Horse Meat. 
 
 We are unable to 3tate to what extent the sale 
 of horse meat has been barred otit in the various 
 cities of the Union, but it is a fact that it is car- 
 ried on under various guises in places where it 
 is little suspected of being found. 
 
 And seriously, should not all uncleanly articles 
 used as food, be subjected to the control of the 
 law, as well as those items of every-day use — • 
 milk, butter, and a nunber of other things, which 
 it is customary with some to adulterate? 
 
 For quite a while now, there has been in force 
 in New York, an ordinance forbidding the sale 
 of the article under consideration. 
 
 ''Section 86 of the Sanitary Code of New York 
 City, zvas amended on February 6, igoi, by the 
 Board of Health positively forbidding the sale 
 of horse meat anyzvhere zvithin the boundaries 
 of Greater New York." 
 
 The arbitrary power of the boards of health is 
 greater than that of almost any other governing 
 body. 
 
 This is as it should be. Every health board 
 in the country that is without the spirit of the 
 above amendment, will do well to follow the ex- 
 ample of ''the metropolis" in this particular. 
 
96 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 A Climax of the Abominable. 
 
 The subjoined quotation, which speaks for 
 itself, was found in an evening newspaper some 
 months subsequent to the writing of this chapter. 
 If the statements therein made are truthful, our 
 suspicions regarding the French people in con- 
 nection with eating the unclean, are well founded ; 
 however much we would have preferred to let 
 them down easy. 
 
 Board of Health in Paris to Build a Slaugh- 
 ter House for Equines. 
 
 Paris, June 7, 1901.— The practice of selling 
 horseflesh has become so widespread among Paris 
 butchers, that the Board of Health is taking 
 steps to build a slaughter house where horses 
 alone will be admitted. In this way, all animals 
 can be subjected to a rigorous examination, 
 whereas at present, herded with the cattle, any 
 horse able to stand on his decrepit legs is passed 
 as good for market. 
 
 At the Villette slaughter house, over eighty 
 horses are killed per day, the majority being the 
 sorriest specimens of rejected cab and carriage 
 horses, for which two or three dollars have been 
 
Law Against Sale of Horse Meat 97 
 
 paid per head. It is to this inferior class of 
 horses, and not to the principle of eating horse- 
 flesh, that the Board of Health objects. 
 
 Under such circumstances, instead of being 
 styled 'The Board of Health," a more fitting 
 term would seem to be, the Board of Death. 
 
 What the French people need, much more than 
 horse meat is, in one way or another, to get some 
 good English ''horse sense" into their make up. 
 
98 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 THE DECAY AND FALL OF THE NATION. 
 
 There are those who tell us that the decay of 
 our American Nation, following the lead of most 
 others, has actually, thus early begun ; and that it 
 is only a question of time when the fair fabric 
 shall ''totter to its fall." 
 
 Well, — if this be so, thus much can be said 
 about it — that great will be the fall thereof. For- 
 tunately, however, when the seeds of destruction 
 heretofore have been found implanted in our 
 American soil, the m'eans of eradication have been 
 at hand, particularly when the people have be- 
 come thoroughly enlightened and aroused as to 
 conditions. 
 
 They have been quick to grasp proper methods 
 for destroying evils, with their own practical 
 hands — for, to say that one is a genuine American 
 
The Decay and Fall of the Nation. 99 
 
 is but another way of saying tliat he is practical. 
 Referring to various alleged and simple causes 
 of the fall of the Roman Empire, they were noth- 
 ing in comparison with those that now menace the 
 welfare of this fair land of which we are all so 
 boastful,— such, too, as may be eradicated if every 
 individual will but so elect. 
 
 Those which are here mentioned are now play- 
 ing with full force against the health and strength 
 of the whole country, sapping its very vitals. 
 
 They are recorded in the order of their magni- 
 tude. 
 
 No^ I.— The ill treatment by many of the re-pro- 
 ductive nature, — probably seventy-five 
 per centum of all sickness and disease 
 being results. 
 No, 2. — The drinking of spirituous liquors. 
 No. 3. — Breathing impure air. 
 No. 4. — Eating pork and its adjunctive parts. 
 No_ ^, — The use of tobacco in its various forms. 
 No. 6. — Drinking tea and coffee. 
 No. 7. — Insufficient exercise and hard work, by 
 
 very many. 
 No. 8. — Excessive eating; — most people eat 
 
 double the quantity of food needed. 
 No. 9.— Want of bathing by the masses and 
 others. 
 
 L.cfC. 
 
100 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Numbers 2 — 4 — 5 — 6 and 7 are greatly condu- 
 cive to No. I. 
 
 Number 6 is a far-reaching evil. 
 
 No. 3 is very conducive to ill health ; but letting 
 in air directly from the outside in cold weather is 
 a dangerous thing to do. 
 
 The cold towel-bath, used night and morning, 
 throughout the entire year is, with a plenty of 
 coarse-towel (buck) massage, one of the finest 
 nerve tonics and health builders there is. 
 
Dangers of Heedlessness. 101 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 DANGERS OF HEEDLESSNESS REGARDING 
 SANITATION. 
 
 Since we have turned towards Sanitation in the 
 last few pages, the opportunity may be improved 
 by continuing in that direction with some state- 
 ments of fact of which we were cognizant. 
 
 A clergyman with whom we had a slight ac- 
 quaintance, had a great desire to own and care 
 for a farm. He presently found one located to 
 his wishes, which he purchased after giving up 
 his pulpit. As he proceeded in his work he grew 
 robust, coarser in look and rapidly filled up with 
 blood ; so that many of his friends on meeting him 
 were almost unable to recognize their former 
 pastor. 
 
 When he tired of farming, after about twenty 
 years, and sought and re-gained his former work, 
 he actually succumbed to typhoid fever in less 
 than six months ; so violent was the contrast be- 
 
102 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 tween active and non-active habits— and so dan- 
 gerous is it to totally give up outdoor air and 
 labor for ihe confinement of close rooms. 
 
 Just here some may be minded to inquire, why, 
 then, do so many of sedentary habits live as long 
 as they dcn-they being non-actively in-doors the 
 greater part of the time ? 
 
 The answer is, that many of them live long 
 lives, but do not much more than half live ;— for 
 the most part they simply exist, and groan about 
 the miseries of life. 
 
 And why should they not groan when much of 
 the impurity in the body is kept from being prop- 
 erly forced out of the system through labor 
 and exercise ; thus plying its abnormal effects in- 
 directly upon the nerves, which are the seat of all 
 feeling. Such conditions exert a morbid influ- 
 ence, too, upon the mind. 
 
 With many of the sedentary, their habits of 
 non-activity become a kind of second nature ;— 
 many times, however, they are strong enough to 
 worry along until either sickness or a revolution 
 of habit overtakes them ; or, perhaps they get just 
 sufficient exercise and pure air to worry on. 
 
 Man non-active becomes an offensive sort of 
 being, provided he keeps on eating. He must 
 have action in order to keep pure in body and 
 mind. 
 
Dangers of Heedlessness. 103 
 
 The country-living man, who enjoys pure, rich 
 breathing-air and active habits ; working out im- 
 purities of all sorts at the pores of the skin 
 continually, ought to be among the most phys- 
 ically happy of men. 
 
 At the fall of Adam, the fate pronounced upon 
 mankind was, "by the sweat of thy face shalt thou 
 eat bread." This, as related to antecedent con- 
 ditions, was in the nature of a curse ; but as mat- 
 ters have been since, it may be understood — by 
 the sweat of the brow shalt thou live to the best 
 physical advantage ; — and this under changed re- 
 lations must be accounted a positive blessing. 
 
 ANOTHER CASE. 
 
 A very saddening case came to my attention a 
 few years ago, of a strong, healthful young man 
 of twenty-three, who went from the back-country 
 to the village to live during the winter; whose 
 sleeping apartment was literally a ''seven-by-nine" 
 bed-room. It had therein but one window, and, 
 of course, a door. He shut himself into the place 
 each night as he slept, both door and window be- 
 ing pretty thoroughly air tight. 
 
 The poor fellow, through ignorance of health 
 laws, from going into this trap in the autumn, 
 came out in the spring with typhoid, and before 
 
104 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 the flowers of May were fully in bioom, they 
 claimed him as their companion of the ground. 
 
 In our own profession of architecture, 
 such matters, we find, are not sufficiently 
 heeded, though there are great numbers 
 of the community who are refreshingly alive 
 to the benefits of proper ventilation— not 
 only of the sleeping apartment, but of 
 all others,— while numerous are the simple de- 
 vices by which they themselves many times se- 
 cure the same. 
 
Doctor Dowie and His Sayings. 105 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 THE REV. DOCTOR DOWIE AND HIS SAYINGS. 
 
 The Reverend J. A. Dowie, according to ac- 
 counts, is a Scottish clergyman, who became what 
 is known as a Divine Healer, and is now pastor of 
 a large church of his own gathering of that be- 
 lief in Chicago. He also had a church previously 
 in Australia. 
 
 In his present position he has had phenomenal 
 success, his parishioners numbering among the 
 thousands. 
 
 In church methods, reports tell of the adoption 
 of those of Apostolic times ; of sending out men, 
 two and two, and by seventies ; more or less, into 
 all parts of the world. Doctrines promulgated 
 are, those of ''preaching the Gospel" and "heal- 
 ing the sick." As Christ preached and healed, 
 ''following in His footsteps, so will He heal now; 
 — He being the same yesterday, to-day, and for- 
 ever." 
 
106 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 Such is what we read and hear. 
 
 Doctor Dowie, in his philosophy, opposes chris- 
 tian science and spirituaHsm ; while those who 
 differ with him otherwise, he is rather denuncia- 
 tory of. This we suspect may account for the ex- 
 treme opposition he meets with in some quarters. 
 
 "Pioneers never wear kid gloves," seems to be 
 
 his motto. 
 
 What we have to say of the reverend gentle- 
 man, however, is, with regard to his utterances on 
 the subject of pork eating; which, without doubt, 
 are the most pronounced of anything of the kind 
 ever written. 
 
 They also have the ring of truth and common 
 
 sense. 
 
 Let us give a few quotations from his writ- 
 ings :— 
 
 "This afternoon I would as soon preach to a 
 goat as to a man or woman full of pork." 
 
 "Oh, how I have been thrilled this last week 
 with the cry from China, where the smoke and 
 the filthiness of opium and tobacco and swine's 
 flesh are going up all of the time, and the Mission- 
 aries tell me the saddest stories of the moral and 
 physical condition of the Chinese people. That^ 
 ancient empire is rotton to the core with disease." 
 
Doctor Dowie and His Sayings. 107 
 
 ''Men and women nozv living are cursing the 
 days their parents ate so much pork." 
 
 "Of all the things that defile the body, there 
 are none more far-reaching in deadly corruption 
 than the breeding of disease into disease, over 
 and over again by this horrible hog!" 
 
 "Let me tell you of Chicago who eat pork, 
 that many of these hogs have been fattened on 
 human flesh. They feed dead human bodies to 
 them. I know it. Hogs have begun to acquire 
 a taste for human flesh, increasing year by year, 
 until there is not a mother in the hog-growing 
 districts who would dare leave her child within 
 reach of one of these animals." 
 
 "Let me tell you further, that swine are eating 
 dead carcasses, not only of horses, but of human 
 beings; — and I want to know — is that man pa- 
 triot, Christian or lover of his fellowmen, that 
 brings such an article of food into Chicago and 
 sells it in the shambles f 
 
 "Are these men lovers of God and lovers of 
 men who are selling and packing and sending to 
 the ends of the earth this disease producing 
 food?" 
 
108 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 "1 hold the eating of swine's flesh responsible 
 to-day for blindness, for paralysis, for many dis- 
 eases of the stomach and the bowels, for scrofula, 
 for all kinds of tumors, for cancer, rheumatism, 
 consumption, for countless deaths and for immor- 
 ality. Is the indictment enough?" 
 
 Doctor Dowie goes on preliminary to preaching 
 a sermon on pork-eating, as follows: 'Triends, 
 I have mapped out for myself a tremendous sub- 
 ject. I have been considering it for a great many 
 years. I have ministered twenty-one years to the 
 sick ; and in addition to the laying on of hands, 
 which sometimes has reached 100,000 times in a 
 year, I have had for many years a correspondence 
 embracing all lands, well nigh all tongues, and I 
 have seen diseases of every kind, running up into 
 the million. I think I have some little right to 
 talk, and to deliver my first sermon full tilt with 
 the sword of the Spirit, against tie American 
 hog, against the British hog, against the Aus- 
 tralian hog, against the hog in every form as an 
 article of human food. 
 
 "Let me call your attention to a fundamental 
 thought here ; so many people say 'well, the hog 
 is just as God made it !'— and that passes for the 
 truth at once." 
 
Doctor Dowie and His Sayings. 109 
 
 He goes on to point out that man is not now 
 as he was originally made, and that "various ani- 
 mals are not as they were at first created ;" — but 
 the facts stand out clear that God made swine's 
 flesh unclean because He chose so to do, and for a 
 purpose which He Himself well understood, — 
 and He had the goodness to give us notification of 
 the fact of its unclean nature, while furthermore 
 commanding that we should leave it severely 
 alone, charging a purifying in case of disobe- 
 dience. 
 
 Testimony was given in relation to a Jewess 
 who ate pork '*on the sly," until it produced can- 
 cer! "Her case was brought to my attention in 
 New York," says Dr. Dowie, "by my friend 
 
 R B . I said, bring her, and I will ask 
 
 her a question which will confirm what you know 
 I have taught. I know that woman has eaten 
 pork." 
 
 "Doctor, you cannot know it." 
 
 "I do know it, it is a general principle that has 
 no exception. Bring her." 
 
 "She came. The first question I asked her 
 was : — 
 
 " 'Madame, have you broken the law of your 
 God and your fathers in eating swine's flesh?' 
 She started." 
 
110 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 "I never heard that question from a Christian ; 
 all Christians eat swine's flesh." 
 
 *'I said : You are mightily mistaken ; it is only 
 fools that eat swine's flesh, whether they are 
 Christians or Jews;— but let me tell you more, it 
 is sin to eat it, for it produces disease.' " 
 
 "I know it," she said. 
 
 "Now tell me if you have eaten it." 
 
 "Yes," she said, ''and my father before me. 
 We have been very fond of swine's flesh, and have 
 therefore lived away from our fellow-Jews ; but 
 alas, many of them eat it, too. Do you think this 
 has anything to do with the cancer?" 
 
 "I said, 'Madame, I have seen thousands of 
 cancers; I have never seen a Jewess in^all my 
 experience with a cancer, until I saw you." 
 
 "Owen's College, Manchester (Eng.), declares 
 respecting the hospital which was attached to it 
 over twenty-five years ago, that there is not a 
 known case of cancer among orthodox Jews, not 
 one." 
 
 "I will add to it my own experience, which is 
 larger than that of Owen's College. Larger, per- 
 haps, than that of any other man on earth to-day, 
 and I will say that / have never met one case ^ of 
 cancer in an orthodox Jezv in the whole world," 
 
Doctor Dowie and His Sayings. Ill 
 
 'The hog under the Mosaic dispensation was 
 declared to be unclean ; unfit for human food, and 
 not to be bred by God's people." 
 
 "I want to call your attention to a remarkable 
 fact that is given by my missionary friends in 
 Turkey, in Persia and elsewhere; that wherever 
 the law of Mohammed is obeyed, and swine flesh 
 is not eaten, cancer and scrofula are absolutely un- 
 known. Whatever other diseases may be there 
 throfugh the transgressions of the people, these 
 diseases are entirely unknown." 
 
 Referring to the physical condition of his ad- 
 herents, of whom all refuse to touch pork, Doctor 
 Dowie states : — 
 
 'There is a marked clearness of skin and 
 healthfulness of flesh in those who have now for 
 years abandoned the use of swine's flesh among 
 us, — and there is greater spiritual power.* 
 
 "We have become profoundly convinced that 
 the death rate of this country is aggravated by 
 these scrofulous diseases, and by cancers that are 
 
 * Thus it is once more shown, that those who adhere 
 strictly to the' healthful, the cleanly and the correct 
 generally, cannot but in time come to have a clear skin 
 and a healthful look. 
 
112 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 directly attributable to this eating of swine's flesh, 
 with the co-operation of nicotine and alcohol." 
 
 Says an informant of Dr. Dowie, with reference 
 to families living in the ''black belt" of Missis- 
 sippi, which had consumed pork as food "from 
 away back" : — ''I found that for a number of gen- 
 erations, more than half of one family had died 
 of Cancer, and several of the family were suffer- 
 ing from cancer then." 
 
 ''These people of the black belt look savagely 
 out of their eyes ; and when you compare the ex- 
 pression of their eyes with that of the eyes of the 
 hog, the look of the two is identically the same." 
 
 "Are we not morally and physically made of 
 that which we eat and drink ?" 
 
 "I am well satisfied that the worst crimes are 
 committed where the people are great consumers 
 of pork."-*" 
 
 Doctor Dowie continues at great length in his 
 strictures, — and we can re-produce only a small 
 part of that which he states. Suffice it to say, that 
 with another quotation we shall close the matter. 
 
 * Notice it. (The writer.) 
 
Doctor Dowie and His Sayings. 113 
 
 The country is certainly under great obligations 
 to Doctor Dowie for his valuable and unstinted 
 declarations in this matter of pork eating. 
 
 "trichinosis." 
 
 "We have a form of disease among us, which 
 is insidious, and people give it no name. They 
 call it by its effects. They do not call it by its 
 cause." 'They come to me," says Dr. Dowie, 
 "great massive men who have been on the rail- 
 ways, great mountains of giant strength, here 
 they come, shrunken in flesh and withering away. 
 When I begin to examine, I find they have lost as 
 many as a hundred pounds, and in some cases are 
 literally shrunken up. They say 'Consumption'— 
 Consumption. It is no consumption, if by that 
 they mean tuberculosis. 
 
 "These wretched, miserable parasites (Trichinia 
 spiralis) that principally fasten upon the muscles, 
 dig out the whole man. They leave him an empty 
 shell, just as the weevil gets into corn and eats it 
 right out, leaving the husk. 
 
 "All over this land there are hundreds of thou- 
 sands of people dying of what is called tubercu- 
 losis and rheumatism. It is no rheumatism at all, 
 nor tuberculosis, nor any of the names you have 
 
il4 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 given it. It is Trichinosis; — it is from eating 
 swine's flesh." 
 
 Pretty plain talk this, — and what is to be done 
 about it? It seems like a pestilence or night- 
 mare. 
 
 Will you now tell us that you were never 
 harmed through the eating of pork by your fore- 
 fathers — did any of them die from cancer, con- 
 sumption or rheumatism — and is the world get- 
 ting off ''scot-free" when there are ten thousand 
 times more pounds of pork consumed in these 
 later days than at any previous time in its history? 
 'How is it about those inherited complaints that 
 the people like to talk about continually? Isn't it 
 high time we ceased talking and began doing 
 something about it? 
 
 It is utterly amazing how men and women will 
 put any and everything that comes along down 
 their throats, provided some one says to do so, 
 and provided also that such things are sufficiently 
 gilded, glossed or sweetened. 
 
The Latest,- -Snake- Fed Ham. US 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 THE LATEST, SNAKE-FED HAM. 
 
 Here we have it again in varied form for much 
 the worse, in snake-fed ham, — decidedly rich to- 
 be-sure; — and if there is a facetious or sarcastic 
 side of the matter we may possibly be indulged 
 therein, in the present chapter. 
 
 As if scrofula, rheumatism and consumption 
 were not enough, the festive snake must forsooth 
 put in an appearance to help out the pork eater 
 in his darling dish. Seemingly all the off scouring 
 of the earth must go down his devoted gullet. 
 
 And what, dear reader, is to hinder you from 
 getting a good bite of the "elegant stuff" in the 
 very next parcel of pork you receive? Be care- 
 ful, — snake-fed ham or pork, contaming the pure 
 essence of pig and snake in combination is as 
 likely as anything else to be your portion. 
 
 What could be so desirable to have served at 
 
116 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 table as the extract of ^wa^^f— probably the vilest 
 imaginable substance!! 
 
 But here we have the statement : — 
 
 SNAKE-FED VIRGINIAN HAM. 
 
 "Snakes as food for hogs beat chestnuts, 
 acorns, or any of the fancy food-stuffs," said 
 Henry Arbuthnot, at the Metropolitan last night. 
 ''Of course you know that in some parts of Eu- 
 rope pigs have killed out the vipers. I was in 
 West Virginia some months ago and found there 
 that a novel industry had been undertaken by a 
 number of men whose lands were overrun by 
 the small variety of snake that infest that section. 
 The snakes were so numerous as to be a nui- 
 sance. One farmer tried the hog as an exter- 
 minator. He succeeded so well that he found 
 the drove of animals he had turned loose on the 
 plantation had not only decreased the number of 
 snakes, but they were actually thriving on them. 
 He told his neighbors about it, and now the 
 whole valley is one large hog-pen, in which hun- 
 dreds of the animals are feeding literally on 
 snakes. Formerly no one would buy land there, 
 notwithstanding the beauty of the place, because 
 of the snakes, but now that the remedy has been 
 found, and at the same time big money is made 
 
The Latest, — Snake-Fed Ham. 117 
 
 on the pigs that grow fat on snake food, the land 
 is destined to be in great demand, as it is the most 
 fertile land in West Virginia. This may sound 
 like a fairy snake tale, but I assure you that it is 
 correct, and that hundreds of pigs are sold from 
 that valley every year that have literally become 
 fat on snakes." — Washington Post. 
 
 It is refreshing to learn that the pig is of some 
 use in the world, and in a new capacity of clear- 
 ing snake grounds. "And do you hear this now" 
 — that "big money is made on the pigs that grow 
 fat on snake food ?" This is all that seems to be 
 necessary in some quarters nowadays — that 
 some one shall be enabled to make "big money" 
 at the expense of your health and mine. 
 
 The question remaining to be answered is, who 
 shall get the largest dose of this extra supply 
 of the essence of pork and the quintessence of 
 snake in combination? 
 
 It is just as likely to be one as another, it de- 
 pending a good deal upon who is in the pork- 
 swim ; and will some one tell us, if possible, 
 what new and virulent disease will extra fat pork, 
 bred from snake food, bring upon us ? 
 
118 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 "Thou art cursed" — is that which was once 
 pronounced upon one very notable snake; while 
 his disease giving proclivities have, in all proba- 
 bility not yet abated in the least. 
 
Garbage-Fed Pork. 119 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 THE PUBLIC REALLY TAKING HOLD OF THE SUB- 
 JECT. Gx\RB AGE-FED PORK. 
 
 That the enormity of this vile state of things 
 is really attracting public attention, is attested by 
 the following statement which may serve as pre- 
 cedent for every town government in the country. 
 
 OBJECT TO GARBAGE. 
 
 "Towns adjoining New Haven, Conn., have 
 taken action similar to that of towns about Hart- 
 ford in agreeing to forbid the bringing of gar- 
 bage from the city into their territory. The ac- 
 tion is ordered by the health boards of Hamden, 
 North Haven and East Haven. The objection 
 is made on hygienic grounds, chiefly because 
 the city garbage is fed to pigs and is believed to 
 cause disease, which when the pigs become pork 
 is transmitted to human beings. The subject is 
 
120 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 attracting much attention, and a bill forbidding 
 the sale of garbage-fed pork will be introduced in 
 the next legislature." 
 
 But why draw the line at garbage-fed pork ? 
 
 iHaven't your ancestors during the last 250 
 years been feeding as bad or worse things to the 
 pigs which they have bred and eaten during this 
 time, such as the entrails of poultry and hundreds 
 of worse things too disgusting to name; and 
 why, pray, has all this never been acted upon be- 
 fore? 
 
 An outcry neither public nor private, in all 
 this period of time has hardly been raised or 
 heard; while, comparatively speaking, every one 
 has gone on eating the bad stuff and calling it 
 good. 
 
 But really, gentlemen, your course is highly 
 commendable; and what shall be said of that 
 large class of the community that emphatically 
 yet ignorantly denies contamination from the use 
 of pork? 
 
Trichina Spiralis. 121 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 
 TRICHINA SPIRALIS. 
 
 New York Herald Articles, 
 
 This parasite is found principally in raw and 
 semi-cooked unclean meats, being associated for 
 the most part with filth, and meats which have 
 been long kept. 
 
 We have seen them in raw pork, a full quarter 
 inch in length, and they were not scanty in num- 
 bers either. 
 
 It is gloomy to hear young fellows who have 
 been off on a fish-fry, boasting of their prowess 
 in the way of having provided a luncheon of 
 "sandwiches for the crowd," made from raw, 
 salted, fat pork, which they averred were "fully 
 as good as any other." One could not doubt 
 their sincerity so long as they remained un- 
 informed as to the evil nature of the substance. 
 
 Many older persons too, we have heard glory- 
 ing in the fact of having eaten raw pork ; compe- 
 tition with the cook evidently being the point of 
 the joke. 
 
122 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 If taken into the stomach, the vermin presently 
 begin to work in an outward direction, aiming 
 more particularly for the muscles, for which 
 they have a decided affinity. 
 
 Once inside a person, they breed many times 
 by thousands. 
 
 The effect on the muscles is partial paralysis 
 or only numbness, according to the number at 
 work. If a very severe case, the patient is soon 
 taken off. It has been testified that this com- 
 plaint of trichinosis has been at times mistaken 
 for quick consumption. 
 
 TRICHINOSIS IN NEW YORK. 
 
 Some years ago serious alarm arose in New 
 York City in connection with this disease; the 
 disturbance spreading through the suburbs more 
 or less, after its nature had become generally 
 known. A number at last succumbed to its 
 power. The case of a man, as we remember, 
 whose muscles were said to be literally honey- 
 combed by the pests, of course, proved fatal. 
 
 The Nezv York Herald took up the matter and 
 made the best of the subject in all its different 
 phases, while other principal newspapers of the 
 city — among them the Tribune — did similar 
 good work. 
 
Trichina Spiralis. 123 
 
 Of course the proper thing to have done under 
 the circumstances, was to leave pork severely 
 alone, which great numbers did do. 
 
 We suspect that many Germans of this country 
 eat quantities of raw, pickled fish, raw pork, and 
 other dubious things, many times without mjury 
 to themselves from the very iron of their nature. 
 If a man be placed on one of our western 
 ranches or prairies, at work in the strong, pure 
 air and winds that are apt to be encountered 
 there, or, if he essay a long sea-voyage, mhahng 
 the air and the breezes during those lengthy 
 periods of time, that presently he may be m 
 condition to eat and digest "anything and 
 everything in sight." But any who attempt 
 this sort of thing, are cautioned on re- 
 turning to civilization about a re-action from 
 over-eating, as well as from the loss of 
 stimulation from the rougher life and livmg 
 left behind them. Better for us all to so live 
 at home, with the effect of the sedentary, the 
 active and the sanitary so intermingled, that there 
 shall be no occasion for going away. 
 
 If Bologna sausage is only half cooked, per- 
 haps the worms therein are but half killed. 
 Should any one consent to be that benevolent 
 
124 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 towards them as to try to nurse them back to 
 life by making a hospital of the stomach, it may 
 be found at the convalescence, that the vermin 
 will prove to be as bad as the half frozen viper 
 in the fable, which, on being brought to, at the 
 kitchen fire, turned upon its benefactor and stung 
 him almost fatally. 
 
 Many of these raw and semi-raw edibles are 
 filled more or less with the Trichina Spiralis. 
 With swine's flesh, if it were swill-fed, pen con- 
 fined, or offal produced, the little fellow may 
 be easily discovered therein, either with or with- 
 out the aid of the glass, he being more or less 
 active and sizable according to the excess of 
 filthiness of that upon which he has been bred. 
 
 NEW YORK HERALD ARTICLES, AND 
 SO FORTH. 
 
 And now we come to some rather extended 
 quotations from the Herald regarding Trichino- 
 sis, as before referred to, which were published 
 a number of years since, and which show up that 
 dreadful disease in all its various phases more 
 comprehensively than anything else that has come 
 to our notice, and which made a deep impression 
 on us at the time they appeared. 
 
 Having addressed a note of inquiry to the Her- 
 
Trichina Spiralis. 125 
 
 aid in relation to the articles, we were informed 
 by the general manager, Mr. G. G. Rowland, 
 that "their files were not open to the use of the 
 public, but that the principal libraries of the city 
 probably contained them." Furthermore the dates 
 of all the Herald's issues in which anything" of the 
 kind had appeared were named, to the extent of 
 some half a dozen different numbers of the paper. 
 This was not only obliging, but most kind. 
 Dr. J. S. Billings, director of the New York 
 Public Library, the new edifice of which is now 
 erecting at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, 
 most civilly wrote in reply to our note of inquiry 
 relative to the files, that "they were included 
 among the contents of the library, and would be 
 handed to us on applying for the same at the 
 desk." 
 We quote as follows : 
 
 TRICHINA IN ST. LOUIS. 
 
 Interesting Scientific Investigation. 
 
 'From the Missouri Republican, 
 
 On Saturday evening a meeting of the Medical 
 Society was held in the Mercantile Library. 
 
126 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 After some routine business had been transacted, 
 a very interesting and somewhat startling subject 
 was introduced. It appears that during the last 
 week two deaths occurred in the City Hospital, 
 which have now been discovered to have resulted 
 from the horrible disease produced by the Trich- 
 ina Spiralis, which created so much excitement 
 in Germany a short time ago-, and subsequently 
 in Iowa and other sections of the country. 
 
 The Trichina, as is well known, are taken into 
 the system by eating raw or half-cooked pork. 
 The following is the substance of the statement 
 made by Dr. Dean, a member of the Medical So- 
 ciety : 
 
 "While present a few minutes before the close 
 of a post mortem examination and demonstration 
 made by Dr. Leffingwell on a subject of the City 
 Hospital, though not for discovering the cause of 
 death. Dr. L. remarked that the muscles were 
 speckled. They drew Dr. Dean's attention to the 
 subject, when he saw the muscles completely 
 studded with larval trichina spiralis. He at once 
 endeavored to get a history of the case, and found 
 the patient was one of tvv^o friends who had come 
 to the hospital, both suffering from general de- 
 bility, and who were so registered. The one 
 whose body he saw had suffered from diarrhoea, 
 abdominal pain, precordial pain, etc., had been 
 
Trichina Spiralis. 127 
 
 treated at last for typhoid fever, which he ap- 
 peared to have, and from which he was supposed 
 to have died. So near are some of the symptoms 
 of trichinosis to those of this disease. As" the 
 disease and the entozoa are well known he 
 would have said nothing of this case except to 
 state it and give its bearings, namely, that the 
 disease, trichinosis, is much more common than 
 generally supposed. If, on examining the other 
 body it should be shown that his muscles were 
 also inhabited by trichina, it would, by mere acci- 
 dent, be shown that two cases, excusably sup- 
 posed to have died of typhoid (in the internal 
 subject there were lung complications) which, in 
 reality, had died of this disease. Dr. D. said Dr. 
 Steel had also had his attention drawn to the 
 dotted appearance of the muscles, and had, as he 
 learned this evening, made out under the micro- 
 scope the presence of trichina. 
 
 "Partly by the request of others versed in the 
 history of the disease, but who thought some of 
 the faculty were not, and partly because of the 
 slight importance attached to the subject by some 
 practitioners, he would give a brief account of 
 the entozoa, and of the disease. 
 
 "The larval trichina as found in the specimen, 
 were free, surounded by granular matter, or by 
 calcareous matter, which latter forms the spindle 
 
128 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 of shuttle shaped cyst. This lies imbedded be- 
 tween the fibres of the involuntary muscles. It 
 does not develop further in the muscles. It is 
 found in the same way in the muscles of the 
 swine. If this flesh be injected uncooked, the 
 calcareous cysts are dissolved by the stomach 
 juices 'and the free larva become sexually de- 
 veloped and produce young; one producing one 
 hundred or more — half a pound of meat might 
 contain enough to produce 30,000,000. These 
 commence emigrating to the voluntary muscles, 
 (so-called) all over the body. As they penetrate 
 to the intestines there is a copious diarrhoea, 
 which carries off many of them in the dejections, 
 but enough remain. As the remaining ones emi- 
 grate into the muscles, pain in, and inability to 
 use the muscles were characteristic symptoms. 
 Edema of limbs and face, a typhoid condition of 
 the system, hiccough, if the diaphragm be in- 
 volved, hoarseness and loss of voice, if the 
 larygnal muscles be affected. 
 
 "This statement excited considerable attention, 
 and a brief suspension of business took place, 
 while many of the medical gentlemen present ex- 
 amined the specimens of the muscles of the de- 
 ceased, produced by Dr. Dean, through glasses. 
 By holding up a piece of the muscle tissue before 
 light, the little specks were plainly visible, and 
 
Trichina Spiralis. 129 
 
 some of the more youthful practitioners present, 
 who had discussed pork steaks and ham for sup- 
 per, grew serio'us -and felt considerable inward 
 disturbance."— From the New York Herald, 
 Nov. 23, 1867. 
 
 In noticing the date of this valuable article, 
 it will be seen that the discovery of the disease is 
 not recent; but it is certain that among the 
 masses, who should especially be enlightened, 
 even at the present time, the complaint is 
 but little known. This is not only lamentable 
 but most unfortunate, and well intentioned people 
 will confer lasting benefit on the class of people 
 referred to, by laboring quietly and effectively 
 towards remedying the evil. 
 
 TRICHINA IN ONEIDA COUNTY, N. Y. 
 
 The death of four members of a family named 
 Wilbrecht, in Oneida County, from trichinosis, 
 was recently only noticed by the press. In con- 
 nection with the case Dr. T. M. Flandrau, of 
 Rome, writes to the Utica Herald that a micro- 
 scopical examination of the muscles of one of 
 the deceased revealed the presence of myriads of 
 trichina in an active state. The little worms 
 
130 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 under the microscope looked like living, writhing 
 snakes. 
 
 *'The salt pork and sausages of which the de- 
 ceased had eaten, were full of trichina in the in- 
 crusted state. This pork was raised by Mr. Wil- 
 brecht, and fattened as usual on corn and grain. 
 There was nothing in the conduct and appearance 
 of the animals when fattening, or the look of the 
 meat to indicate disease. The sausages were 
 made of raw meat, and then smoked until quite 
 black and dry, as is the German custom." — From 
 the New York Herald, Feb. 2, 1869. 
 
 It will be noticed in this case, that the fatten- 
 ing of pigs on corn, did not prevent the foulness 
 of the unclean from producing death. 
 
 DEATH FROM TRICHINA. 
 
 FOUR PERSONS DIE FROM EATING TRICHINIAC 
 PORK IN BALLARD COUNTY, KY. 
 
 From the Louisville Courier Journal. 
 
 Four persons were killed by eating meat in 
 •which there was trichina, in Ballard County, last 
 week. 
 
Trichina Spiralis. 131 
 
 The stomach of one of them had been sent to 
 this city for examination. The facts of the case 
 are about as follows : 
 
 "The victims were a German family by the 
 name of Haydecker. It seems a ham was pur- 
 chased, of which Mr. and Mrs. Haydecker and 
 two of the children ate considerable quantities 
 in a raw state. Soon after Mr. H. was taken 
 sick, and Dr. J. S. Sea was called in. The doc- 
 tor did not at first discover anything alarming 
 about the symptoms, but the patient grew worse 
 until Wednesday evening when he died. In the 
 meantime Mrs. Haydecker became ill with similar 
 symptoms. Drs. Jewett and Smith were called 
 in for consultation, but none of them were famil- 
 iar with the symptoms, nor could afford any re- 
 lief. On Friday Mrs. Haydecker died, and on 
 Saturday the two little girls who had eaten of the 
 pork died a similar death to that which had taken 
 the father and mother. 
 
 "Thus, four persons in all were poisoned by 
 the one fatal meal. Three children who did not 
 eat the meat at all, had not been taken sick at 
 last accounts." — From N, Y, Herald, April 24, 
 1870. 
 
132 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIII. 
 
 TRICHINA CONTINUED. — CYSTOCERERCI. 
 
 The following, taken from the writings of 
 Edward Smith, M. D., Fellow of the Royal Col- 
 lege of Physicians, London, is reprinted by the 
 Appletons. 
 
 He says in part : "There is, however, a greater 
 danger in the use of pork than of any other kind 
 of meat, since, so far as known, it is more fre- 
 quently diseased, and the nature of the disease 
 is such as to be very injurious to man. 
 
 "Thus, measly pork— a disease consisting of 
 cystocererci as large as hemp seed — is known to 
 have produced fatal results to many of those who 
 have incautiously eaten it; and although the 
 characteristics of the disease may be recognized 
 by those who understand it, they are neither 
 known nor observed by the great majority of the 
 poorer classes. Further, the terrible pests of the 
 small worm, called Trichina Spiralis, is much 
 
Cystocererci. 133 
 
 more frequent in this than in other kinds of flesh 
 in its uncooked state, and the power which thi? 
 creature has to penetrate the tissues of the body 
 of those who eat it has been vividly described 
 by German and American writers. 
 
 "Many instances of this terrible disease, isolated 
 or in numbers, have now been recorded and par- 
 ticularly in Germany. Of 103 healthy people 
 who ate diseased pork, which had been made into 
 sausage meat at Helstadt, in Prussia, 20 died 
 within a month. 
 
 "In Massachusetts a family was thus poisoned, 
 with symptoms of pain and swelling of the eyes, 
 stomach and bowels, and also in the limbs, which 
 became rigid and could not be moved without 
 giving excruciating suffering. 
 
 "There were also vomiting and profuse perspi- 
 ration. In all the fatal cases the worm was found 
 to have penetrated the whole muscular system, 
 and upwards of 50,000 were computed to exist 
 on a square inch.'' 
 
134 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 
 FOREIGNERS GETTING THEIR EYES OPENED. 
 
 The following is from a prominent city daily 
 of January, 1900: 
 
 German Opposition to American Meats. 
 
 Berlin,, Sunday.— The MarkthaUenzeitung, 
 the organ o'f the Berlin commission merchants, 
 declares that the war against the importation of 
 American meats into Germany has not been un- 
 dertaken in the interest of agriculture, but only 
 in the interest of a few agrarians. This, it is 
 urged, should end the matter ; but, unfortunately, 
 what is said to the prejudice of American meats 
 is too willingly accepted as true in government 
 
 circles. 
 
 Replying to this the Agrarian Tagezeitung 
 directs attention to the recent decision of the 
 court of Dusseldorf , on the appeal of a merchant 
 from the confiscation of consignments of Ameri- 
 
Getting Their Eyes Opened. 135 
 
 can sausages. The court declared that the five 
 boxes confiscated had not received a thorough 
 examination, and were found on re-examination 
 to contain trichina. 
 
 And why should they not contain trichina? 
 
 The sausage is raw material and consequently 
 the parasites will and must breed therein, for 
 science now pronounces that there can be no such 
 thing as spontaneous generation. It is, there- 
 fore, difficult to see why the germ must not be 
 omnipresent in all raw pork as well as in all 
 other unclean meats, from its very incipiency; 
 while in the case quoted, it evidently needed 
 only the length of time while travelling to Ger- 
 many, to develop the germs into life and activity. 
 
 The Germans, it seems, have no intention of 
 allowing their muscles to be honey-combed with 
 the gay Trichina. We wouldn't, if we were they. 
 
136 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXV. 
 
 THE UTILITIES OF SWINE. 
 
 At this juncture some presumably may be im- 
 pelled to ask, for what good use in the economy 
 of nature were swine intended ? or, to what good 
 purpose or purposes, if unfit for food, can they be 
 applied? 
 
 Well, we think it has been satisfactorily shown 
 that they were never intended for dietary use. 
 
 Is it not patent at a glance that the pig is the 
 best scavenger there is, .reducing unhealthful 
 substances of very many kinds to innocuous con- 
 ditions? If he is penned he is no less a scavenger, 
 as his keeper then necessarily becomes responsi- 
 ble for his supplies, which as a rule he gets un- 
 stintedly, and of many and dubious kinds. 
 
 The old time farce of going through the oper- 
 ation of feeding corn to the pig for about six 
 weeks previous to butchering, may have been a 
 
The Utilities of Swine. 137 
 
 factor in the fattening process, but it was simply 
 a farce in the matter of purifying the animal of 
 the effects of that upon which he had been bred, 
 for the simple reason that by no human process 
 whatsoever can his flesh be rendered cleanly, as, 
 and for food. 
 
 The common house fly too, is one of our best 
 friends in this matter of scavenging; he, for the 
 most part, having matters all his own way, being 
 outside of control. Between the two, who can tell 
 how much of sickness is warded off by their re- 
 spective activities; though the former, in cities 
 and their suburbs, has been relegated to a non- 
 existing condition. 
 
 Some tell us of other items of utility ; one, for 
 example, being a salt pork rind for the cure of 
 bruises and related ails, which is said to be help- 
 ful. Physicians of the very old school made a 
 number of kinds of salves partially of lard, which, 
 for all we know, may be the case at the present 
 time; but a real good house wife will tell you 
 never to use lard for anything medicinal or cur- 
 ative, as "it is terribly heating.'' 
 
 Here we have the pig of the matter again — 
 heating, inflammatory, feverish — just that which 
 it should not be for beneficial effects. 
 
138 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 But there has been a time in our modern his- 
 tory when lard became a positive blessing. 
 
 The interim between the use of whale-oil and 
 kerosene was one of long duration, and a cause 
 of some considerable alarm. 
 
 Leviathan had about given out when Nan- 
 tucket, New Bedford and New London could 
 do but little more for us in the functions of light- 
 ing our buildings and thoroughfares. New 
 York, like other cities, had at that time a dull, 
 little light of sperm oil at its street corners, which, 
 if placed beside similarly located lights of to-day, 
 would be declared to somewhat rank the light- 
 ning-bug. 
 
 What was to be done when the Atlantic and the 
 Pacific were well nigh exhausted of the oil pro- 
 ducing whale? 
 
 Well, we have a faint remembrance of it all; 
 most every one, it seemed, was casting about to 
 discover or devise some means of lighting which 
 could be universally adapted and adopted. 
 
 Burning fluid was compounded. It was bril- 
 liant in its light, and cleanly as compared with 
 whale oil, but dangerous to handle. 
 
 Chemical oil was invented which was expen- 
 sive though very luminous. Composition can- 
 dles came in and were good as far as their light 
 ^vould penetrate. The use of wax candles was 
 
The Utilities of Swine. 139 
 
 revived, they were beautiful, toney and expensive 
 -—the Hght being comparatively dim — but it re- 
 mained, however, for lard oil to finally make its 
 appearance and handsomely fill the gap, until 
 the discovery and perfecting of kerosene; which 
 has held the field ever since, though quantities of 
 lard oil are still used for various purposes. 
 
 Josiah Macy's Sons, of New York, (and pre- 
 sumably others), from having been large manu- 
 facturers of whale and sperm oil, were at their 
 wits' end ; for, like Othello, their occupation had 
 nearly vanished, when they branched off to be- 
 come manufacturers of lard oil. Great casks of 
 this were presently to be seen on their well-filled 
 trucks in all parts of lower New York; and, if 
 we are not mistaken, the house still holds to this 
 business. 
 
 For lighting and lubricating purposes, the stuff 
 was really better than anything else. We have 
 also heard it said by those interested in these 
 matters that for the lubrication of certain kinds 
 of machinery there is nothing so well adapted as 
 this lard preparation. 
 
 Other uses are found to which the pig products 
 can be put to advantage; the skin is finished as 
 leather, which is well adapted for the manufactur- 
 ing of various things, such as saddles, travelling 
 bags, shoes of some styles, and a number of other 
 
140 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 articles. Bristles, as every one knows, are the 
 staple in brush making — so that the pig really 
 has been of some considerable use in the world. 
 
 Should the time ever come when the oil wells 
 of the world give out, we may have to fall back 
 upon the lard product for our lesser lighting; 
 which supply — thanks to the porker, or rather, 
 to his Creator — would be limitless ; and who can 
 tell but that it is for this he may have been 
 principally originated. 
 
 It therefore now remains a question for com- 
 putation, how many of the animals it is necessary 
 to have bred in order to satisfy the demands of 
 utility ; also, whether by degrees. State, or other 
 laws shall not be enacted, similar to those which 
 bar out the sale of horse meat; for it cannot be 
 successfully maintained, that for food, one is 
 a whit better than the other. 
 
The Exportation of Pork. 141 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVI. 
 
 STATISTICS OF THE PORK PRODUCTION OF THE 
 
 UNITED STATES, EXPORTED DURING THE 
 
 YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899. 
 
 It would be interesting as well as instructive 
 were it possible to ascertain with accuracy the 
 amount of pork consumed annually as food in 
 the United States ; for it concerns us as a peo- 
 ple somewhat more vitally in the way of health 
 and other considerations, than do the amounts 
 exported to other nations. 
 
 The various sources of supply outside of the 
 professed packing establishments are, first, the 
 domestic production, as connected with single 
 and isolated families, extending over the vast 
 area of the country. Second, the great produc- 
 
142 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 tion by farmers generally, who, for the most part, 
 are well removed from the packing influence, 
 and in a great measure supply an outlying do- 
 mestic demand; and lastly, that which comes 
 through importation— for there must necessarily 
 be imports on all sides, to a limited extent— as 
 well as exports. 
 
 How much the aggregate consumed by the 
 whole country per annum would amount to, is 
 a difficult matter to correctly ascertain or esti- 
 mate. Referring to the table of statistics, the 
 great preponderance of exports to the United 
 Kingdom will be found as far outbalancing those 
 of all the rest of the world combined ; and who 
 can doubt that the consumption in the United! 
 States is not two-fold greater than that of Eng- 
 land, Scotland, Ireland and Wales together— 
 which would certainly seem to be a conservative 
 estimate— so that, if we are virtually corrupting 
 the whole outside world with our pork produc- 
 tion, we are doing the same thing with our own 
 country in a most superlative degree. 
 
 Besides the sources of supply named. It may 
 be added that the packing establishments, east 
 and west, themselves very largely fill local de- 
 mands the country over, "the hogs being mostly 
 bred at the west." 
 
The Exportation of Pork. 143 
 
 (From the World Almanac.) 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF HOG PRODUCTS EXPORTED FROM THE 
 UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899. 
 
 Countries. Bacon. Hams. Pork. Lard. 
 
 Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. 
 
 United Kingdom 395.474,204 177,702,854 90,686,214 204,445,770 
 
 France 12,366,110 1,145,490 212,936 32,312,597 
 
 Germany 36,151,678 9,813,118 15,515,225 229,230,175 
 
 Belgium 29,519,843 14,984,833 9,586,676 37,307,555 
 
 Netherlands 10,014,623 4,265,556 10,011,680 74,865,099 
 
 Denmark 1,843,326 691,562 874,175 10,536,795 
 
 Sweden and Norway 28,363,112 463,206 5,124.728 13,157,399 
 
 Spain 147,003 1,500 24,588 5,100 
 
 Italy 12,435,593 187.966 383,973 7,483,483 
 
 Cuba 11,353,301 6,299,486 752,766 27,291,504 
 
 Hayti 566 117,395 6,727,685 1,532,484 
 
 Pcrto Rico 1,138,421 127,234 3,332,800 4,741,704 
 
 British West Indies 258,427 984,977 8,777,720 2.473,287 
 
 Mexico 184,482 277,623 10,518 2,270,339 
 
 Brazil 6,040,051 32,412 117,900 17,839,650 
 
 Colombia 27,325 194,327 176.174 1,766,263 
 
 Venezuela 30,667 450,093 20.000 5,536,080 
 
 British Guiana 10,551 193,330 3,407,400 420,578 
 
 Peru 5,740 27,157 12,800 422,963 
 
 Quebec, Ontario, etc 9.729,041 5,635,192 12,232,093 6,568,5*8 
 
 Nova Scotia, etc 25,354 173,283 1,914,954 189,101 
 
 Newfoundland, etc 50,318 124,784 3,847,407 263,190 
 
 All others 7.381.491 2.023,372 4,760,852 29,400.167 
 
 Totals 562,651,480 225,846.750 '178,507.564 711.259.851 
 
 The total pounds of Bacon, Hams, Pork and Lard exported for the 
 year ending June 30, 1899, foot up 1,678. "65. 645. 
 
 The enormity of these aggregations is not 
 only astounding, but to those possessed of patri- 
 otic feeling and a conscience, is deeply humilia- 
 ting. 
 
 Astounding, because at a glance, the vast 
 amount and area of defilement are at once vividly 
 shown. Humiliating, from the knowledge that 
 the love of lucre by one's own countrymen lies 
 at the bottom of the whole shocking condition. 
 And can those having the welfare of their coun- 
 
144 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 try at heart rest easy under such a fearful state 
 of things? 
 
 The general health, the moral tone and the 
 actual vitality of every country, are all lowered 
 in proportion as so noxious a substance is eaten 
 by the people; while, in consequence, the seeds 
 of disease and degeneration will be scattered 
 broadcast. 
 
 The increased diffusion and eating of such 
 enormous quantities of pork throughout the 
 world suggests to the mind a thought of Total 
 Depravity through physical causes — for wha,t 
 more effectual way of bringing in such a condi- 
 tion could possibly be invented ? 
 
 If the old question of Total Depravity has been 
 decided in the negative, are we not working in 
 this matter of pork eating in the most practical 
 way possible to reverse the decision? 
 
 Matter affecting morals, and morals affecting 
 the soul, seem to be eventual transitions; nor 
 does this require pointed elucidation. 
 
 We know not the far reaching effects of a sin- 
 gle line or sentence fitly or forcefully stated— 
 neither can we adequately estimate the polluting 
 influence upon body and mind from eating the 
 unclean. As one has stated : 'The effect of this 
 on the individual through influencing the spiritu- 
 
The Exportation of Pork. 145 
 
 al, may, for all anything we can tell, continue 
 eternally." 
 
 What we do know, however, is regarding 
 some of the terrors of things terrestrial — of the 
 scrofulous, the rheumatic, the cancerous, and so 
 forth. 
 
 Witness then in imagination, if possible, the 
 agony of good women when submitting to the 
 knife of the surgeon before the discovery of 
 anesthetics, in, for instance, a case of cancer. 
 Many in the present time would prefer death to 
 this ! and where is the society that has done any- 
 thing in mitigation of the fearful evil in ques- 
 tion? 
 
 Observe that this tabulation of pork products 
 is the amount in pounds, exported and distributed 
 throughout the world in the single year ending 
 June 30, 1899. 
 
 If then as we have estimated, the consump- 
 tion in the United States exceeds the amount 
 exported to the United Kingdom by twice as 
 much, we shall have as our total production of 
 exports combined with that of home consump- 
 tion, amounts as follows : 
 
 Total exports to the various countries of the 
 world, 1,678,265,645 pounds. 
 
 The amount consumed at home, 1,737,018,- 
 084 pounds. 
 
146 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 The sum total— three billions, four hundred 
 and fifteen millions, two hundred and eighty-three 
 thousand, seven hundred and twenty-nine pounds. 
 (3,415,283,729). 
 
 This is enough to literally throw consterna- 
 tion into the minds of all who hope for the 
 continuance of the American Republic. 
 
 Enough combined with the foreign home pro- 
 duction to inflame the whole world with its in- 
 nate poison — and enough from another point of 
 view, combined with that produced during the 
 last twenty-five years, to have caused all the 
 increase of commotion in the world which this 
 period of time has seen ! 
 
 Is it doubted that the eating of swine flesh 
 causes propensities in the one eating it similar to 
 those possessed by the hog?!! So it has been 
 pointedly testified in these pages ; and who shall 
 deny that the increased activity of the Evil-One 
 throughout the world in the last decade or 
 more, as manifested in war, dissension, and 
 violence against those in high places, is not in 
 just about the same proportion of the extra pro- 
 duction of the commodity of pork during the 
 
 same time ? 
 
 The pig should go— and that quickly. 
 
Appeals. 147 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVII. 
 
 APPEALS. 
 
 And now as we draw near to the close of 
 our work, we come to practical suggestions rel- 
 ative to the eradication of pork as human food. 
 
 First, then, we appeal to the people of every 
 town, city and hamlet in the United States, Great 
 Britain and Germany, to purge out the foul sub- 
 stance from within their very boundaries. 
 
 Its sale should be as liable to the control of 
 law as poison, gun powder and horse meat. 
 
 The first two named, are generally licensed to 
 be sold. 
 
 The last is not licensed in its sale at all, but 
 should be barred out by legal statute, city or 
 town ordinance; or, better still, by the arbitrary 
 methods of Boards of Health. 
 
 Pork in this connection should be placed on a 
 par with horse meat. 
 
148 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 Were a ban to be put upon its sale, general 
 health would begin at once to improve, at least 
 so far as this is concerned, continuing so to do 
 until a normal condition were attained. 
 
 Public expenses as connected with poorhouses, 
 town farms, hospitals and related institutions 
 would gradually diminish— nay, there would in 
 time be much less poverty generally; for what- 
 ever tends to lessen the tone of health, tends also 
 to sickness and degenerate conditions; there- 
 fore, let every one in both public and private life 
 agitate and agitate, until an actual Revolution is 
 in sight. 
 
 IN SCHOOLS. 
 
 Also, let the doctrine be taught in the various 
 schools, in order that the young may come to a 
 knowledge of the truth while the mind is as yet 
 in a plastic condition— and instead of having the 
 imagination affected by wood cuts of sales by 
 ignorant Chinese, of rats, etc., for cooking, let 
 them have the truth in good round English. 
 
 This at once suggests to authors the prepara- 
 tion of text-books for school and academy uses 
 —yes, and for the college as well— which latter 
 should contain all practical and gleanable truths 
 bearing on the subject. 
 
Appeals. 149 
 
 THE PULPIT. 
 
 The pulpit also may, with propriety, pronounce 
 upon the matter, as most certainly it would be 
 good Bible doctrine. 
 
 As the God of Heaven has forbidden the thing, 
 why should they who are in a sense responsible 
 for others not approach so vital a matter? For- 
 bidden of Heaven, why should not man frown 
 upon it, and that continually ? 
 
 THE FAMILY. 
 
 Of all influences that are most potent in both 
 immediate and lasting effects, those brought to 
 bear by the heads of the family would seem 
 to be greatest. 
 
 Position for guidance, voice to instruct, and 
 power of enforcement, all are here. More real 
 and lasting effect can be produced by parental 
 authority, than by all other influences — we had 
 almost said — combined ; if parents would but ex- 
 ercise their powers. 
 
 Not only the immediate good, but that of the 
 future is at stake. Vivacity, clear complexion, 
 contamination of the blood, not to mention more 
 serious matters — all are in question. v 
 
150 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 THE POWER OF WEALTH. 
 
 We appeal also* to people of means— they more 
 than many others wield an influence all their 
 own Let the use of pork in the household m all 
 its various forms be abolished. Also, let it be 
 understood that the contamination cannot there 
 
 be tolerated. i r ^" 
 
 The silent influence of "planting the foot 
 upon it at all times is more expressive than many 
 
 words. . , 
 
 Should a little volubility at opportune times be 
 desirable, a fitting topic suggests as to the re- 
 spectability of having such questionable food m 
 the house. 
 
 HEALTH JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES. 
 
 We further appeal to those invaluable sources 
 of information and instruction, the health journal 
 and magazine. The good which they have ac- 
 complished in the past, in the way of enlight- 
 ening the public, and, of the consequent uplift- 
 ing of mankind, can be hardly estimated ; for it is 
 from such sources that new health doctrines have 
 heretofore, in a great measure, been promul- 
 gated. 
 
Appeals. 151 
 
 A revolution in thinking, with resultant prac- 
 tice, in the direction of improving the com- 
 munity's health, can, in a great degree, be traced 
 to these journals. Therefore, let a fresh and 
 "forceful prodding of the beast" now be in order. 
 
 TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETIES. 
 
 We now come to the two most potent factors 
 of our appeals — the forming of Total Abstinence 
 Societies, and the inaugurating of Newspaper 
 Organs for accelerating the reform. 
 
 Let total abstinence societies then be formed 
 in every town, hamlet and city throughout the 
 national commonwealth, binding members to the 
 disuse of pork with all its ramifying adjuncts — 
 of sausage, steak, spare rib, head cheese, liver, 
 souse, ham, bacon, pickled feet and lard in all 
 the manifold ways in which it is used. 
 
 These societies when formed should be kept 
 up in interest by all conceivable methods. In 
 due time, when newspapers shall have begun to 
 circulate, the onerous labor will in a degree begin 
 to abate; for then, correspondence, news, glad 
 tidings, and so forth, will be recorded and read 
 to the effect of doing away with the drudgery of 
 the pioneer work. But encouragement and sue- 
 
152 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 cess will eventually appear, flashing around tlie 
 horizon, after the preliminary hard labor has 
 been gone through with. 
 
 Therefore, let intelligent, active and benevolent 
 women initiate the movement at once, no matter 
 where they are located, whether in remote ham- 
 let or nearby city, and wait not on the order of 
 their beginning. Let them see to it also that 
 they in their first endeavors, do not tire from any 
 cause whatever. The old couplet remember: 
 
 "The bud may have a bitter taste. 
 But sweet zvill be the Hower" 
 
 Neither let them give ear to the machinations 
 of the enemy, their friends many times, who, 
 through outside and other influences, will try 
 in various ways to circumvent the movement. 
 
 The actual expenses of a society need at the 
 outset be next to nothing, particularly in country 
 places, as may be seen upon brief reflection. 
 
 Let men also put their shoulders "to the 
 wheel" in good earnest; forming their own so- 
 cieties likewise. 
 
 These v/hen systematized might serve to keep 
 those of the ladies in countenance, through the 
 strength of a good right arm at times, and in 
 
Appeals. 153 
 
 ways all the time of their own skillful, usual and 
 easy devising. 
 
 It, too, would devolve upon the men's socie- 
 ties, in time, to put before State Legislatures and 
 Health Boards, such memorials for abolish- 
 ing the use of pork, as might be deemed advisa- 
 ble. 
 
 As much enterprise could be put into society 
 proceedings as fancy and audacity might sug- 
 gest, for it would in all probability be found, 
 after a society were fairly started, that time 
 would show the movement to be one of those 
 matters that go like wildfire. 
 
 The enemy would soon tire of selling the 
 poison in the face of a galling and popular fire, 
 besides, he could easily resort to sales which 
 inure to the weal of man, rather than to his woe. 
 
 In one short year a change could be made for 
 the good of the country that would arrest the 
 attention of statisticians. 
 
 Intercommunication, too, when the newspaper 
 shall have been established, can be kept up with 
 all parts of the State for comparing notes, for 
 encouragement, and so forth; when workers 
 would be able to consider the amount of disease 
 and defilement which they themselves were caus- 
 ing to be rolled away from the community, 
 
154 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 SUGGESTION FOR A FORM OF PLEDGE. 
 
 I, John Smith, hereby promise to abstain from 
 eating pork in all its parts, and from things 
 cooked in lard as far as it is practicable, and 
 to teach those whom I can influence in the matter 
 to do the same thing, and to be instant in season 
 and out of season in my endeavors to rid the 
 community of the foul blight. 
 
 Signed and dated. 
 
 INAUGURATING OF THE NEWSPAPER ORGAN. 
 
 As a most effectual means of pushing forward 
 the movement, let newspapers be established in 
 every State in the Union. In some of the larger 
 ones two or more could thrive ; while in a few 
 cases a half dozen could live and live well. 
 
 All these, when established, should denounce 
 the evil in terms unmeasured, in season and out 
 of season, in the wisest and most telling man- 
 ner. 
 
 They should be influential in founding and 
 assisting societies in every part of the State, and 
 when started to encourage them in every way 
 Dossible, 
 
 Every little village^ both far aiid near, should 
 
Appeals. 155 
 
 have its society, as these are more especially the 
 places where those of limited means are found; 
 while from having fewer libraries and books, the 
 people here are perhaps more difficult of interest- 
 ing in new propositions. 
 
 CENTRAL ORGAN IN NEW YORK. 
 
 The head central newspaper in New York City 
 would be in position to reap a harvest in cold 
 cash, as being the leading journal of the coun- 
 try. Its success would depend upon the amount 
 of integrity, capital, acumen and insistence 
 brought to bear on the enterprise. 
 
 Every calling, craft and reform movement un- 
 der the sun now has its representative orgaU; 
 excepting the one under consideration. 
 
 Chicago should support half a dozen such 
 journals ; Omaha, two or three ; St. Louis, four 
 or five ; Connecticut, one ; New Jersey, two, and 
 
 so on. 
 
 Opposition likely to be encountered should if 
 rightly handled, be the very best thing for pro- 
 moting success. If it would but antagonize the 
 movement, victory would be assured; for such 
 action would not only prove a source of adver- 
 tisement, but would impart life and ze^t t9 it 
 besides, 
 
156 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 Should the opposition think to kill off the 
 movement by leaving it severely alone, then it 
 would be only a question of time upon which 
 horn of the dilemma it would finally be im- 
 paled. 
 
Coming to Close Quarters. 157 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
 
 COMING TO CLOSE QUARTERS — EFFECTS OF SMALL 
 AMOUNTS OF PORK EATEN IN FAMILIES. 
 
 Some doubtless may wish to inquire if it is 
 really thought that pork-eating in minor quan- 
 tities, as used in the average family, is so serious 
 a matter as would seem from a perusal of the 
 foregoing pages? 
 
 Well, were this simple query examined in all 
 its bearings, the recorded results would cover 
 considerable paper. 
 
 The little things and the silent forces of the 
 world are much more powerful many times than 
 their opposites. 
 
 "Taking care of the pence that the pounds 
 may take care of themselves," is one of those 
 wise ''old saws," which in earlier times was worn 
 threadbare; while the would-be millionaire, in 
 one way or another, must learn the value of the 
 nickel before ev^n laying the foundations for his 
 millions. 
 
158 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 And with regard to those silent forces, the 
 calm and continued sunshine is a thousand times 
 more potent in its way than all the tornadoes that 
 ever blew; while gravity and cohesion in their 
 eternal silence outdo in power all the earth- 
 quakes and volcanoes that have belched out their 
 fury since the dawn of creation ! 
 
 Of the comparatively small amounts of pork 
 and lard referred to as used from day to day in 
 families, what are we to say of their aggregate 
 in weeks, months and years? Upon computa- 
 tion they will be found as simply enormous. 
 And in order to get down to exact knowledge 
 let any, or all, foot up their bills paid in a 
 twelve-month for these items, when they will 
 then have the whole story. 
 
 If any one has carefully observed the effect 
 of the accumulation of littles, in any direction, it 
 is just here in this daily use of small amounts of 
 the "pernicious" that the principle stands illus- 
 trated. 
 
 Says one medical writer: "It is the continual 
 nibbling by young girls at everything in the 
 house that destroys the appetite and ruins the 
 digestion." And it is "constant small tippling," 
 say the temperance workers, "that is eventually 
 productive of the greater mischief from drink- 
 ing/^ 
 
Coming to Close Quarters. 159 
 
 So, too, is it in the use of the "pernicious." It 
 is the steady, continuous use of small quantities 
 that finally results in lasting injury. 
 
 We may, therefore, safely conclude that pork- 
 eating in minor quantities, together with lard, 
 as tised in the average family, is something seri- 
 ous snough to be termed one of the very worst 
 anO. most mischievous phases of the matter. 
 
160 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIX. 
 
 COOKING FATS. 
 
 Some of the valuable fats for cooking are as 
 follows — and among those which are most so, 
 the fat of poultry may be named — that of geese, 
 turkeys and chickens. It has been said that the 
 fat of geese in this connection is most valuable, 
 but is apt to become rancid if not well taken care 
 of. 
 
 Poultry fat would seem to be good enough to 
 suit the most fastidious. 
 
 Of course, the fat of beef and mutton must re- 
 main the standby for general cooking, while dif- 
 ferent families would probably have their own 
 particular methods for keeping the same sweet^ 
 as well as for treating it, in the varying tempera- 
 tures of the year. 
 
 An excellent housekeeper, who utterly disdains 
 pork, tells us of a comparatively new cooking 
 fat which seems to be quite adequate — cod fat, 
 
Cooking Fats. 161 
 
 It is found ill beeves, adjacent to the kidneys, 
 and is much softer than suet when rendered. It 
 is usually kept in the markets, and sells at five or 
 six cents the pound. It is almost as pliable as 
 lard; and if milk be added, is still more easily 
 wrought. 
 
 For some purposes, butter combined with cod 
 fat is very satisfactory. 
 
 Butter, however, for purposes to which it is 
 especially appropriate, is par excellence the most 
 desirable cooking fat. The fried foods which 
 heretofore have been cooked in lard, if done in 
 butter are doubly enhanced in palatable values; 
 some may urge its expense when compared with 
 lard, but upon taking everything into considera- 
 tion, how vastly more economical is it? 
 
162 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 CHAPTER XL. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 In passing to a very brief recapitulation of the 
 case, we may say that if there are large num- 
 bers of people in our country who disdain the 
 eating of pork, there are thousands to their one 
 who never so much as heard a word against it; 
 but, as an author, quoted, states: "Pork, both 
 fresh and salted, is an article of diet that ought 
 to disappear, and is disappearing before civiliza- 
 tion and culture." That is to say, in proportion 
 as the people become informed as to its inherent 
 nature, the more will they be likely to abstain 
 from its use. 
 
 With regard to the Commandment, it would 
 seem that the candid, always anxious for their 
 own welfare, rather than antagonize the matter, 
 would prefer extremes in an opposite direction. 
 And what more is necessary to be said in this 
 connection ? 
 
Recapitulation. 163 
 
 The medical profession, of the Allopathic and 
 the Homeopathic schools, we have shown, has 
 not lifted up its voice in vain. The many quo- 
 tations which we give, are full of vital informa- 
 tion and force. 
 
 Foreign lands that are afflicted with an un- 
 clean dietary, upon investigation, seem to have 
 the pig as a leader in the same — while China and 
 India are most prominent. 
 
 These countries are found in such conditions 
 probably from being outside the track of civiliza- 
 tion, and because the Star of Empire has contin- 
 ually taken its way westward, thus leaving them 
 in the lurch. 
 
 They probably do not yet comprehend the 
 double action which is being brought to bear 
 upon them. 
 
 If the Star of the Empire has persistently 
 moved westward, it cannot be said of it, upon 
 arriving at our Pacific Coast from the Atlantic 
 side, that it came to a final stopping place; be- 
 cause it has already skipped over the great wa- 
 ters to the Sandwich and Philippine Islands, and 
 will soon be planting a solid rap in the backs o£ 
 India and China from the East. Then, poor 
 things, what will they do, with the fires of civili- 
 zation attacking them from both front and rear? 
 To be overtaken with whiskey and pork in con- 
 
164 Pernicious Pork. 
 
 junction, and from all quarters, is what might 
 be called civilization with a vengeance! 
 
 The eating of horse meat is only another of 
 those things that the ignorant and the lazy will 
 sometimes take to ; for there is hardly an abomi- 
 nable thing in the world — either animal or veg- 
 etable — ^but that some will eat if left to them- 
 selves or to the whims of others — though it can 
 be truthfully said that genuine old-fashioned 
 Americans, even among the very poor, never so 
 much as tasted this foul substance of horse meat ; 
 while to bring it in at this late day, and as an im- 
 portation, would savor of rank abomination. 
 
 The New York City law, as revised by the 
 Board of Health, should be promulgated in all 
 the cities of the Union. Such a law if adopted 
 by these cities, even though lacking opportunity 
 of enforcement, would be educative in its influ- 
 ence. 
 
 The quotation of garbage-fed pork is a verita- 
 ble pointer. It is a sign of reformation. Proof 
 positive that good leaven is actually at work in 
 the minds of the people. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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