Meat infection may result in two species of tapeworm, the tænia saginata and the tænia solium. The tænia saginata is due to infection from beef, which is known in lay terms as measly beef. The tænia solium is due to infection from pork, which is known in lay terminology as measly pork. The larva of the tænia solium appears in hogs and is known as bladder worms, from the fact that it is found incased in small cysts in the intestines, the muscle fibers, brain and other parts. The larva of the tænia saginata is found in the muscular fibers and connective tissue of cattle and when ingested in man develops into the tænia saginata.
Trichinosis
There is a parasite known as trichina spiralis which is found as a minute spiral worm in the muscular fibers of pork. It is visible to the naked eye as white specks. The ingestion of this parasite into a person with subluxations, causing interference with transmission of mental impulses, produces a condition which is called trichinosis. It is an acute condition and the symptoms resemble typhoid fever. It often results fatally.
Echinococcus
The echinococcus is sometimes found in the meat of hogs, sheep and cattle. When the eggs are ingested in man they hatch and the embryo pierces the mucosa and lodges in the tissues, forming a hydatid or cyst. These cysts develop and increase in size as the larvæ multiply.
As the eggs are ingested into the digestive tract of man there is created a necessity for adaptative action on the part of Innate Intelligence for the purpose of expelling them. This action will be sufficient to result in the expulsion of the larvæ if there is no interference with the transmission of mental impulses to the tissue cells. When this action takes place there will be no injury done, but if the action does not take place the eggs remain in the body and hatch, producing what is known as a hydatid dis-ease.
SECTION II
CHIROPRACTIC PEDIATRICS
CHAPTER I
THE BABY
CHAPTER I
THE BABY