the uniformity of results in Ordering Cialis Online Safe permanently lowering
the temperature in all cases, that the thymol treat-
ment was of benefit. If this benefit resulted from
a destruction of the intestinal forms of trichina one
would have to conclude that these, rather than the
young migrating forms, were responsible for the
temperature. I'^ollowing the thymol treatment stool
specimens from all patients were examined, but no
trichin;e were found.
SUMMARY.
1. There were twelve cases of trichinosis in a
family Ordering Cialis Online Safe of thirteen members, the nursing baby being
the only one not affected.
2. The infection was due to eating partially cooked
pork, and in two cases to eating uncooked sausage.
3. The degree of illness was most severe in the
older children who had unrestricted access to the
sausage.
4. The symptoms of muscle involvement were
typical in those severely affected.
5. Eosinophilia was most pronounced in those Ordering Cialis Online Safe in
the early stages of muscle involvement.
6. In the gross the pork was suspicious of trichi-
nosis, and on microscopical investigation trichina-
were found.
Value of the Wassermann Reaction. — Douglas
Symmers, Charles Ci. Darlington, and Helen Bitt-
man [Journal A. M. A., Eebruary 2, 1918) point
out that the value of the Wassermann reaction has
been called into question by a number of observers.
An effort was therefore made to compare the re-
sults of this reaction, as carried out with both
cholesterin and crude alcoholic antigens, with the
results of post mortem examinations. Every i>re-
caution was taken to make the observations as ac-
curate as possible and due allowances were made
for possible errors. The remaining ninety-nine
cases, after excluding all negative at post mortem
and to Wassermann, gave the following restilts
Among the cases in which the characteristic ana-
tomical evidences of syphilis were present at
necropsy the Wassermann reaction was found to be
negative during life in from thirty-one to fifty-six
per cent., depending on the antigen employed. On
the other hand, the reaction was positive in at least
thirty per cent, of cases in which no anatomic:-.!
lesions of syphilis were found post mortem.
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