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ones. My expectations did not realize however, for a health- 

 ier lot of worms I never saw inside the fourth stomach of a 

 lamb, and I have seen a good many. This experiment not 

 being just what I wished or expected I made up my mind 

 that I would make another one. This time I took the two 

 remaining lambs and gave them a double dose of benzine, or 

 in other words, I gave them twice the quantity prescribed 

 by those recommending its use. I expected that this treat- 

 ment would kill the lambs right off, but it did not. . It badly 

 intoxicated them. On the second day after the lambs had 

 received full treatment I killed both of them expecting to 

 find the stomach entirely free from living worms. Judge my 

 surprise when upon opening the stomachs of the lambs I 

 found them literally alive with worms. Now, if the benzine 

 was of ordinary strength, which my druggist assures me it 

 was, I have no other alternative but to think that benzine 

 does not actually do all that it is claimed for it in destroying 

 stomach worms. 



It is a question in my mind whether a remedy so volatile 

 as benzine is known to be, could ever reach the fourth stom- 

 ach in sufficient strength and quantity after evaporation and 

 dissemination through the system, and its becoming mixed 

 with the juices of the first stomach as to destroy the worms. 

 But you say the lambs are to be deprived of both food and 

 water for a considerable time before the medicine is adminis- 

 tered, and that the stomach will be practically free from 

 liquids! While this may be true in part, the fact still re- 

 mains that there is a considerable amount of liquid created 

 by the salivary glands, which becomes mixed with the benzine 

 in the first stomach and does its work in reducing the 

 strength of the benzine. 



