Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 35 | Your Muscles may be Full of Pearls

.Your Muscles Mav Be Full of Pearls I , Possible that many of the rr" or is page have pearls in fth7 8cles especially the muscles A, ms There is however no nee peP'c to submit to an operatior to get th- pearls out It would 'ttpaeed Dly about ,he 8 ze of a are trne pearls hov ever being IT ta "actly the same way as pa P- oirving e body of a in fl eh Kg" a e ase o man th s flesu K0,,otfl? dreaded trichina which "leafrom. eating pork (esrecially ra v pork) in Sum ner Just as the pearl of the narket is the oysters way of dls po ing of an unpleasant worm parasite so does the constitution of man enshr ne in a pearl like sac these troublers of his peace The worm that causes the oyster to make the pearl has an interesting career It used to be thought that pearls were the result of a grain of sand making its way to an oyster shell or a mussel shell It s now known that it s a worm wb oh no der to liv must find lodging n hree d PereD hosts an oyster a s 1 f h eat ng fish and a fish eat Dg fish T pa a lie s t e jo ng n a wo m w ch when matu p ves n the intes tine of a large fish Th adult ..orm pro duces many thou ands of eggs n ch hatch oa as m nute swimming creatures who may consider themselves fortunate f they fall upon a bed of mussels or ojsters They enter tl e shell and make the r way into the soft substance of the mollusc A few penetrate no further than the skin and become encased. In the pearl layers These are the pearls The others which have found the r way into the mussels or the oysters body thrive They 1 ave the chance o be ng swallowed by a mussel eat ng fish sach as a skate and then a further chance of that skate be ng eaten by a shark Then and only hen does the worm have a hance to grow and become adult pro ducing in turn itn nnumerable joung Copyright 1015 by the Star Comoa y Grca