. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ADULT INTESTINAL TRICHIXASPIRALIS. MAGNiriED. MUSCLE TEICHINA ENCYSTED. MAGNIFIED. accompanying cut of a magnified one, taken from the muscles of a hog. The mature andfertile worm lives in the intestines of the animal and there lays its eggs. As soon as the eggs hatch, the young trichinae at once migrate by eating their waythrough the intestines, and find their way into the voluntary muscles, and in course of fiveor six weeks from the time of hatch
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ADULT INTESTINAL TRICHIXASPIRALIS. MAGNiriED. MUSCLE TEICHINA ENCYSTED. MAGNIFIED. accompanying cut of a magnified one, taken from the muscles of a hog. The mature andfertile worm lives in the intestines of the animal and there lays its eggs. As soon as the eggs hatch, the young trichinae at once migrate by eating their waythrough the intestines, and find their way into the voluntary muscles, and in course of fiveor six weeks from the time of hatching, they become encysted in the muscles, and will do nofarther injury to the man or animal containing them, but during the five or six weeks inwhich they are migrating to the muscles, the great danger lies, as this is attended with pain,exhaustion, and emaciation, which frequently results fatally. When meat containing theencysted trichinae is taken into the stomach, it develops into a mature parasite which lays itseggs in the intestines, which soon hatch. The symptoms are frequently mistaken for rheumatism, the muscles afiected becomingswol
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