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little yet, although there is depicted on her forehead signs 

 of liver complaint who knows but what this guinea- 

 pig has not innocently transferred the germs of a 

 hydatid to her liver; which ere long will burst forth 

 with all the symptoms of the disease in its worst 

 form ? 



4. To destroy, as far as possible, the tape worm 

 generated in the dog for this purpose it would be 

 well that all dogs were periodically physicked with 

 gamboge, calomel, turpentine, or kousso, and their 

 excreta buried in the ground or destroyed by fire. 



These are measures which are of national import- 

 ance particularly in such countries as Iceland, where 

 the sheep-dog during the long winter nights occupies a 

 portion of the overcrowded dwelling of his master, 

 and where "hydatids" are the cause of one-seventh of 

 the human mortality, and which merits more than 

 ordinary attention in many parts of our own country. 



Therapeutically, very little it is feared can be done 

 in the destruction of these animals by medicine. We 

 know full well that when the tapeworm infests the 

 alimentary canal, we have in the Areca nut, Filix mas, 

 Kamela, Kousso, Pomegranate, and Turpentine, potent 

 remedies, which undoubtedly do kill the animal; but 

 to treat the hydatid in the liver by the same means, 

 is quite another matter: for the attainment of this 

 object, however, certain therapeutic agents have been 

 employed, which are thought to pass from the blood 

 into the "cysts," and there kill the inhabitants in their 

 own fortresses. Baumes believed that calomel was 

 endowed with such properties ; Csesar Hawkins, iodine, 

 and the iodide of potassium, and Laennec the common 



