TRICHINAE. 
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maid. An examination of the pork at the house revealed the 
presence of numerous trichinae in its fleshy portions. 
Thudicum (see 7th report of the Privy Council, London, 
1865), sums up the principal phenomena of trichinosis by man as 
follows : u Sudden swelling of the face, particularly the eyelids, 
after the patient has for some days felt prostrate, and lost his ap¬ 
petite (this swelling causes only a sense of tension, no pain); fever 
with a quick pulse and copious perspiration, which not rarely 
has a repugnant odor; painfulness and immobility of arms and 
legs; the muscles are swelled and contracted, and give great pain 
when set in motion by the will or touched from without; in the 
worst cases the entire body is perfectly immovable and highly 
sensitive; there is gastro-intestinal catarrh (diarrhoea), with a red 
somewhat covered tongue, inclining to dryness ; when the swell¬ 
ing of the face has subsided, oedema of the feet, legs and thighs 
comes on ; shortly afterwards anasarca swelling over the trunk 
makes its appearance.’’ 
The uncertainty which exists with reference to the phenome¬ 
na of trichinosis humana seems to warrant the production of the 
following translation of portions of an article by Dr. Rupprecht 
in the Vierteljahrsschrift fur gerichtliche Medecin , Yol. 33, p. 
284, Berlin, 1880, with reference to the “ beginning and course, 
of the phenomena of trichinosis , as well as those which mark the 
beginning and fatal termination of those dying from the dis¬ 
ease 
1st period, embracing the first ten days of the disease. 
INGRESSION PHENOMENA. 
The first uncertain—indigestion—phenomena of this disease 
do not make their appearance earlier than the second or third 
day from the time of the introduction of the parasites into the 
stomach. They are caused by the movements of the parasites over 
the mucosa of the stomach and the next adjoining portion of the 
intestinal canal—duodenum, jejunum—by their progressive de¬ 
velopment toward maturity, the disturbances they cause in search 
of nourishment, the processes of generation of the young and the 
disturbances caused by the migration of the embryo through the 
