The Effect of ACTH in Trichinosis

Abstract

IN SOME areas, New England among them, trichinosis remains the most common parasitic disease of serious consequence.1 A review of the cases occurring in Massachusetts in the ten-year period 1936–1945 reveals 287 cases, including 7 deaths.2 Trichinosis, as is well known, is produced by Trichinella spiralis, a small round worm that enters the body after the ingestion of pork or pork products containing encysted viable larvae. The cysts are digested and the larvae liberated. These develop into adult worms in the duodenum. After copulation the females invade the mucosa of the duodenum and deposit their eggs. The larvae that . . .