332! DISEASES OF DOGS : WORMS. 



worm ball (No. 29, p. 334), in expelling them. 

 Dogs are liable to a small white flat worm; these 

 are somtimes expelled in great numbers, after 

 giving worm medicines. The last kind to be 

 mentioned is the tape worm, which is a long, flat, 

 and jointed worm, measuring from one to thirty- 

 feet or more, and is of a whitish colour. 



We are induced to believe that worms are pro- 

 pagated from a foul or slimy state of the bowels, 

 which state arises probably from a chronic inflam- 

 mation of the mucous membrane of the intestines, 

 that increases and perverts the natural secretion 

 of its mucus. This slime or mucus of the intes- 

 tines, undergoing some change, has the power, as 

 we suppose, of generating worms. 



The treatment that we have adopted in these 

 cases, whatever kind of worms the dog may be 

 troubled with, is generally, first, to administer the 

 following mercurial ball in the evening, which will 

 vomit and purge him, and early the next morning 

 to aive him the aloetic worm ball. 



(RECIPE, No. 26.) 



Mercurial IVorm Ball. 



Take — Turbith mineral, four to six grains; 



Worm seed, in powder, two scruples : 

 Make into a ball with conserve. 



