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JOHN WORTALUT. 
Agaricum ij § • 
Turbith, j §. 
R. Sambuci j § • 
Mellis ix § • 
D. S.—To be steeped in hot water, strained, and given cool 
to horse to drink. 
AN EPIDEMIC OF TRICHINOSIS ON THE JORDAN * 
BY DR. JOHN WORTALUT. 
The outbreak of the disease was traced to a wild hog killed in 
the swamps adjoining the village of El Khiam, on the 25th of 
November, 1880. The animal was a very large boar, and I was 
told that its flesh appeared fresh, fat and perfectly healthy. 
A large number of the people of the village ate of the flesh 
of this hog, partly in a raw and partly in a semi-cooked condi¬ 
tion. Not one of these persons escaped invasion. The head of 
the boar was sent as a present to a family in an adjoining village. 
It was cooked three time before any of it was eaten, and although 
quite a number of people ate of it, none of them became sick. All 
those who partook of other portions of the hog remained apparent¬ 
ly healthy until the second, in some, and in others, the third week 
subsequently. I heard of only one man who was taken with vom¬ 
iting and diarrhoea soon after eating; in this case the phenomena 
of the disease were very mild. Another ate the meat well cooked, 
and remained free from any indications of infection to the end of 
the fifth week after partaking of it. This person was not confined 
to the bed. 
The principal phenomena which became apparent during the 
third, fourth and fifth week of the invasion were, oedema of the 
face and extremities, severe muscular pains, more or less fever 
and itching over the whole body. The pains complicated the ac¬ 
tive muscles, inclusive of those of the lower jaw, larynx and 
pharynx; but were most severe at those points where the muscles 
* Virchow’s Archiv, vol. 83, p. 553. 
