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than usual, and nearly half made up of worms ; stomach half 

 full of partly digested food ; heart and lungs healthy ; Schnei- 

 derian membrane injected ; mucous membrane of trachea and 

 part of larger bronchiae of a more or less livid colour (which 

 may be owing to asphyxia) ; corner of tongue bitten off ; mouth 

 very close. 



" Several animals were found at times lying dead together. 



" Of the Ttenia as many as three or four ponies, which some 

 hours previous had been seen grazing unaffected, were found 

 dead on the same spot ; and this to my own knowledge, one 

 farmer having lost ten. 



" Of the small worms I have been told by a farmer that in 

 his district one of his neighbours had lost twelve ponies."" 



As I had partly misunderstood my informant's original 

 statement, Mr Lloyd, in a third communication, repeated the 

 evidence, emphatically reminding me that " the ponies affected 

 with tapeworms are in a district six or seven miles distant from 

 those affected with strongyles. Those troubled with tapeworms 

 are in good condition, as a rule, up to death ; they are noticed 

 to be troubled generally for two months previous to death, 

 and may be seen at one hour grazing and apparently well, and 

 dead or dying the next hour. As many as four have been 

 found dead at the same spot. In this (the Beacons) district 

 the tapeworms alone have been found and not a single strongyle. 

 In the Deangunid district strongyles only have been found, such 

 as I sent you. The ponies have been noticed ailing for three 

 or four weeks, becoming rapidly emaciated and dying from 

 exhaustion. In tapeworm-affected animals the caecum is nearly 

 half full of these parasites. The animals thus affected are 

 on the red sandstone formation, whilst those affected with 

 strongyles occur on the limestone formation the latter affording 

 the drier situation."" 



Being on the teaching staff of the Royal Veterinary College 

 I was particularly glad to have the authority of an experienced 

 veterinary practitioner to testify to the injuriousness of Tcenia 

 perfoliata in the horse. Over and over again I had pointed 

 out to the members of my class the desirability of examining 

 the faeces of solipeds where obscure symptoms of intestinal irrita- 

 tion existed. Not only so ; at the request of friends I wrote out 

 prescriptions suitable for equine patients suffering from tapeworm. 

 I felt the more indebted to Mr Lloyd, inasmuch as his practical 

 views served to strengthen the propositions I had advanced in 



