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lows it. Little force will be necessary if he 

 is held between the knees and his head 

 held well up. 



Previous to administering it all food 

 should be withheld for twenty-four hours. 

 Two hours after giving it he should have a 

 dose consisting of two tablespoonfuls of 

 sweet oil and one of syrup of buckthorn 

 mixed, eivine him no food whatever for at 

 least an hour after administering the oil. 

 This will nearly always prove effectual. In 

 case, however, that it does not accomplish 

 the purpose at the expiration of two weeks, 

 you may administer, to a fifty-pound dog, 

 twelve drops of extract of male fern well 

 beaten up in a tablespoonful of milk, ob- 

 serving the same precaution as to the giv- 

 ing of food and oil as before noted. 



Areca nut does not kill the parasite, but 

 causes it to loosen the hooks or suckers by 

 which it adheres to the intestine, while the 

 oil of fern kills it outright. I have never 

 seen serious results from the proper use of 



