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The infection in man is regarded as more or less accidental, the lower animals being the normal hosts for trichinae.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae.

From Time Magazine Archive

An animal, the muscles of which are swarming with living trichinae, may be well nourished and healthy looking.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

A Yankee Inspector you seem to suppose is A buckler and barrier against trichinosis; Bat trichinae pass without passports.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 by Various

Press it between two glass slips, and examine by transmitted light, The coiled trichinae may be readily distinguished from the muscle fiber.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various