Show NICK NICE tweet PORK BOMB TELLING FACTS REGARDING ITS healthfulness SALT LAKE CITY october Oct ber 1886 editor deseret news with much interest I 1 have read the health hints in your columns column sand and am fully assured that were ere they put in practice the result would be to de rease sickness and the death rate and to improve ithe the physical intellectual and aad moral condition of ehe e e people in the EVENING NE ws of the ansti I 1 noticed noti ed some remarks u upon p 0 pork eating as a bourse of di path ph theria e i ial aud and I 1 then determined to give you the result of my observations observation NS HOGS which I 1 saw opened last winter I 1 in n various parts of this city the young small loan lean hogs were the most healthy bp althy though one of these weighing 5 pounds had a highly degenerated liver this organ was of the dull brown instead of the blended glossy blue brown and red color its substance had bad lost its natural firmness and with a fork was easily broken up into a mushy mass in plain english that liver was in A a semi rotten state another animal weighing about pounds had a liver of this character only it was much more putrescent ut a very slight pressure of the finger penetrating trat ng it while gentle agitation with a stick would reduce it to a soft mass it was absolutely e ly rotten the lungs of this brute were congested while two large spots ta were very dark red bloody blood and adso decomposed imposed the intestines ivere were also very dark in color and would break on the slightest pressure showing marked degeneration of their sab substance stance another large hot hog looking sleek aid healthy had been kept ept in a clean pen and as the good folks said was fed on nice clean food which by tb the way is exceptional in feeding hogs with not the least suspicion of anything wrong in appearance this animal when opened showed that p p ONE LUNG HAD WASTED to the size of a small fist yet they said the liver was good and doubtless it made several fries for the family still another large hog had a number of white op opaque ue cheeley cooki looking dg I 1 lumps amps imbed im bedded dea in the substance of the langri aud and the bre breathing a thing was laborious and heavy tois mats was a case of tubercular consumption of tile the lungs while the liver and intestines w were rp diseased many otter other animals had ulcers of various sizes developed in the substance of the liver in some cases the owners said it was only necessary to cat out the bad spots spot the ulcerations ip in order to render the 17 though I 1 have specified but a few cages cafes of the hugs hogs yet nearly all suffered from either congestion wasting lope or condition of the I 1 lungs or from ulceration aud and degeneration of the liver or degeneration ot of the one hog had a marked inflammation of the bladder the casp cases ol of LIVER DISEASE were the most numerous all of these hogs bogs were used for food and the people prided themselves upon eating nothing but the I 1 home raised I 1 article ait icle the general supposition is that although the vital organs may be diar diseased the flesh is sweet and healthful this is 8 a great mistake the whole mass of the blood passes asses through the liver and lung longs for F ats t purificat ionar d the matters corn composing posing the ulcers aid tubercles tub ercles are filtered oat bout from tl ti a vital fluid and deposited in those rt gions The vital borgs ll 11 A are corrupted because the whole mia mass s of the blood B s corrupt the flesh is made up trox this diseased blood anday means ci the millions of blood vessels which w e h permeate ate every part of t the h e b body 0 d v blood I 1 0 0 permeate Terme largely comprises tile the bulk of animal food As evidence of this see how hew the red fluid flows from the rare cooked roast and in id this blood tt toe te ulcerous and scrofulous matter exist and the muscular fibre fabre the flesh proper largely partakes of the gross and DISEASED CHARACTER OS OF THE BLOOD it would not adt be difficult to show hew rheumatism liver dom complaint plaint typhoid fevers inflammations sore throat la eluding diphtheria and eruptive diseases or sear latina and smallpox result from taking the above named particles into the 06 system in the form of por pork k ham lard sausage etc but must musi close for the present respectfully |