TRICHINOSIS

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Abstract
Clinical and pathologic observations during the past several years furnish convincing evidence that trichinosis is a common disease. The number of epidemics and the number of reported and unreported single cases, as well as the number of individuals associated or unassociated with epidemics presenting somewhat obscure abdominal, general muscular and facial symptoms (without blood or muscle examination) attest to this statement. The percentage of trichina findings in those dead of various disorders is surprisingly high, and in several series of unselected necropsy cases the percentage has varied from 0.5 to 5.4, the latter figure having been reported by Williams1in this country. The life history of the parasite in the rat, hog and human being, including the effect of gastric secretions, the habits of the parasites in the intestines, and their blood dissemination and muscle deposition, has been exhaustively studied since the discovery of the importance of its human

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