Lectures on practical medicine and pathology, 1894.

  • Delafield, Francis, 1841-1915.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Lectures on practical medicine and pathology, 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    days. It is often fatal. In the cases which recover convales- cence is protracted. Treatment.—The preventive treatment consists in an efficient inspection of the muscles of all swine that are slaughtered and in the thorough cooking of all swine flesh that is eaten. During the first seven days after the ingestion of infected flesh it is possible to get rid of some of the trichinae by vomiting and purging the patients.