Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-04

questionable whether the worm attacks the
muscle only, or whether it is not deposited in
the intervals which occur between the bundles
of muscles. Leuckhart says they penetrate
the sarcolemma, and cat the muscular fiure
itself. DR.. ThudIchum SAYS that he has never
seen but once the worm in the muscle, bat
always outside Of it. 1t is certainly strange
TACT, that 10 many cases, persons attacked
with Irichiniasis, have not only perfectly re-
covered from its effects, but have become as
strong as ever. 1t could scarcely have hap
pened that the muscles OF these patients had
cen fed upon by vast colonies of worms,
which would have inevitably destroyed them
beyond repair. The probability is that the
worm fnds it's way into all the issues. Be-
tween the third and fourth week after imm-
grafton, the trichlne has become full-grown. .
and now II begins to prepare Its capsule. IL
becomes fixed to the spot IN which it is, solid
matter Is deposited around it, curled up, it
lice immovable in its plasic capsule and dies
unless received again into the alIment.ry
canal of another animal, which In this case
OF course 1t never does
. The presence of these encapsuied trI-
chime IN the muscles may cause Irrita non,
but that speedily subsidies and it is pretty
clear that many persons suffer little harm
from them whilst thus curled up, as they
have been found the bodies of subjects that
have heen dlseected, aud whose previous his
tory gave no evidence of their existence.
"On Jhe other hand, the malady, when sc
we're, puts on many ot the characteristic symp-
toms OF weii-known diseases. Tne fever
caused by the presence OF the parent worms
IN the Intestines may be, as indeed 1t often
has been, taken for gastric fever. Then,
again, when the young worms are Imm igra-
ting INTO the muscles, the most e1cruclating <
agony slezes the patient; he cannot move i
muscle without the utmost pain, and he Ii ;
generally upon hls back, with his legs a lit5le
apart, covered with perspIratlon. The ia ce
and neck become tumld with a dropsical etfu-
sion, which gradually extents to the legs ard
bdJmen. An attack of rheumatic fever ap-
pears to have seized the individual, but tor
the want OF the heart symptoms. Again, the
disc sc stimulates cholera and typhus, and
indeed poisoning IN many OF Its symptoms {;
but those who have seen genuine case OF tri-
chinIasis cannot be deceived, az the whole
symptoms presenJ are consistent with no other
disease. In cases of doubt, piece of The
living muscle has been exclsed from the biceps
muscle Of the arm and this test Is almost
certain 10 De conclusive, rs the worm is dis
trlbuted, III severe Cases, IN profusIon through
every voluntary muscle OF the entire body.
- Dr.. ThudIchum, speaking of child who
died OF TINS disease, says IN his report to Mr..
Simon g One preparation from the blceps
muscle Ot 4 child four anu l half years OF
age. which died on the seventy-ninth day
contained the astounding number of fifty
eight. Such prepar ration was estimated TO
weigh one-hfth of grain, ami therefore every
grain OF muscle contained on an average one
hundred trichin@. Now, assuming the weig bit
OF the muscles Of adult 70 be ,nly forty
pounds, and assuming him to be toe victim
OF lrIchInlasis, and the parasites equally dis
trlbuted throughout his body, he would con
tain upwards OF twenty-eIght millions %
these animals.