A STUDY OF AN EPIDEMIC OF FOURTEEN CASES OF TRICHINOSIS WITH CURES BY SERUM THERAPY

Abstract

The following observations were made in the course of a study of an epidemic of fourteen cases of trichinosis in which the patients were admitted to the wards of the St. Joseph's Hospital at Far Rockaway, N. Y. The laboratory studies were made partly in the laboratory of the hospital and partly in my home. Observations 1 to 6 inclusive represent confirmation or amplification of findings already made by other authors. All the other findings are new. The Kernig reaction was present in all the cases. Edema of the face occurred in all the cases. Edema of the lower extremities occurred in six cases. The reflexes in the lower extremities were abolished in all the cases and are still absent now (six months having elapsed since the cases first came under observation). Trichinae were found in the blood in nine cases of the fourteen. Trichinae were readily found in the