TAPE-WORM. 153 



2 dessert- spoous = 1 table-spoon = 4 fluid draclims. 



2 table-spoons = 1 fluid ounce = 8 fluid draclims. 



2 fluid ounces = 1 small wine-glass. 

 26 ,, „ =1 quart bottle. 



4-0 „ ,, =1 imperial quart. 



The inorredients to be mixed with flour into a ^^ood 

 adhesive consistency, and then divided into two pills. A 

 convenient way of doing this, is to multiply the number 

 of birds to be dosed by the quantity to be given each 

 bird, then weigh a bath or dish, and put the quantity 

 of ingredient required into it, adding flour till the desired 

 consistency is obtained ; then weighing the bath and 

 all, and deducting the weight of the bath previously 

 ascertained, we have the net weight to be divided by 

 twice the number of birds to be physicked as the 

 weight for each pill. Turpentine, it should be borne 

 in mind, soon evaporates. The birds having been shut 

 up from early the previous evening, and fasted till about 

 eight in the morning, the first pill should be given, and 

 three hours afterwards the second ; then fast them two 

 hours more, when they can be turned out to graze, but 

 they should be kept away from water. "We do not 

 advise following the dose with a purgative, as is often 

 done. 



The post-mortem appearances of a bird dying of tape- 

 worm are, with the exception that the stomach is per- 



