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quently fatal if the number of worms is great. In the pig the 

 trichinae exist in the muscles in the same condition as in man, 



Fig. 114. Trichina spiralis, greatly enlarged, a, mature female from the alimentary canal ; 

 G, genital opening ; E, embryos; Ov, ovary, b, male ; T, t.-stis. c, embryo, d, embryo 

 which has emigrated into a muscle fiber, e, the same developed into a coiled mus 

 trichina, and encysted. (After Claus.) 



