TRICHINOSIS

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Abstract
The cases of trichinosis reported here afford an unusual opportunity for study, not only from the clinical aspect of the disease, but more especially from the early pathologic invasion of the tissue to the development of the encysted forms. The accompanying photomicrographs serve to bring out this point more clearly. The cases are also interesting, because those having the disease were not, with the exception of one, seriously ill. Trichinosis has been classed in the textbooks, as well as in the current literature, among the rarer diseases, but the belief is becoming more and more prevalent that it is not so uncommon, for there are a large number of cases that have been observed and the diagnosis never made. It is not an uncommon occurrence for the pathologist to find trichinae in pieces of muscle tissue contained in pathologic specimens. The case reports here given are those of four university

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