On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . Single trichina spiralis from humanmuscle, magnified 150 was taken from a case which proved fatal in six weeks. The worm was found to be l-20th of an inch in Trichina spiralis encysted in engraving represents the completelyencysted worm in horizontal sections, show-ing six stumps, which proves that the wormlies in three convolutions when it has attainedits full size. related a series of fatal cases which occurred in 1845, attributed at thetime to poison, which, as he suggests, were most probably ca
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . Single trichina spiralis from humanmuscle, magnified 150 was taken from a case which proved fatal in six weeks. The worm was found to be l-20th of an inch in Trichina spiralis encysted in engraving represents the completelyencysted worm in horizontal sections, show-ing six stumps, which proves that the wormlies in three convolutions when it has attainedits full size. related a series of fatal cases which occurred in 1845, attributed at thetime to poison, which, as he suggests, were most probably caused bythe use of trichinous food. (Caspers Vierteljahrssehrift, Jan. 1864, As means of distinction from irritant poisoning may be pointed outthe long time which commonly elapses between the taking of the foodand the commencement of the symptoms. The pain, vomiting, andpurging are comparatively slight; the pain is in the bowels ratherthan in the stomach. Peritonitis, pneumonia, and fever are not com-monly results of the action of irritant poisons, while these diseasesappear in cases of trichinosis. The absence of ordinary poison in thefood, in the urine, and the evacuations at any stage, may also be takenas conclusive evidence against i
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