1897 THE MICROSCOPE. 117 
PRECMICROSCOPE: 
New Series, 1893. 
For Naturalists, Physicians, and Druggists, and Designed to Popularize 
Microscopy. 
Published monthly. Price $1.00 per annum. Subscriptions should end 
with the year. The old sertes, consisting of 12 volumes (1881-1892), ended 
with December, 1892. Sets of the old sertes cannot be furnished. All 
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Microscopical Publishing Co., Washington, D. C., U. S. A. 
CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOR. 
EDITORIAL. 
Science-—Gossip, which has been in former years one of 
our co-laborers, has just resumed attention to microscopy 
and puts out a page and a half of notes edited by J. H. 
Cooke, F. L. S. who was at one time Editor of the Medi- 
terranean Naturalist and is now on the staff of the South 
Kensington Museum. This July instalment will doubt- 
less be followed by other and longer collections of notes. 
The subscription price of Science-Gossip is only $1.62 per 
annum. 
Trichinosis.—On Feb. 5, 1897 an Italian who had eaten 
Bologna sausage was taken into the Philadelphia Hospital 
suffering intense pain in legs and thighs. He had had 
chills and vomiting but no diarrhea. His face had begun 
to swell. There was edema of the eyelids, swelling over 
the molar bone, skin red and shiny, tongue coated and dry. 
There was nothing unusual visible on the legs but the 
least pressure caused pain. The tenderness was diffused 
and not confined to bone, nerve or blood vessel. Some 
sleepless nights and great pain followed until March 2d.— 
almost a month. On that day he consented to the removal 
of a piece of muscle from the left gastrocnemius. It 
showed a large number of non-encapsulated embyronal 
trichine scattered among the muscle fibres. The opera- 
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