1&4 DISEASES 



under the headings of round-worm, maw-worm and tape-worm, I have 

 in this article done the same ,as these are the kinds that mostly concern 

 dog owners. 



Symptoms of Stomach Worms in young puppies are plain to be seen; 

 they pass them, also vomit them up; they cause Diarrhea, and you will 

 find mucus, or slime, and sometimes blood in the passage. You will also 

 notice a distension and hardness of the stomach very much disproportion- 

 ate to amount of food they have eaten and you may notice the puppy drag- 

 ging itself on its stern or biting at its tail. In older dogs most of these 

 same symptoms appear, as well as others here enumerated; a foul breath, 

 nose is hot and dry, hacking cough, fits, vomiting of their food mixed with 

 mucus, rough and staring coat, indigeston, disturbed sleep, colic, pains' and 

 emaciation. 



The question is often asked at what period after service should a 

 bitch be treated for worms, or rather how soon before whelping? A fort- 

 night or three weeks is about the limit after service, but they have been 

 treated without bad result within three weeks of whelping. 



If you have your puppies confined in a yard it is very easy to watch 

 their passages, and this is one of the surest ways of all; then, as soon as 

 you see mucus or worms passed you know they have them, and can go to 

 work at once to treat them. Now, as to stomach or round worms — if they 

 appear before pups are weaned in such quantities that you deem it advis- 

 able or safest to treat, as it most generally is, select the vermifuge you 

 wish to use and then be guided as to size of dose and age of puppy. 



Now, here, on this most important subject of Worms, I want to say all 

 the good I can for the sake of saving the puppies. You will find advertised 

 in this book worm remedies made by Glover, Clayton, Polk Miller, and the 

 Vermilax Company and the C. S. R. Remedy Co. Look them up in the 

 very interesting and valuable lot of advertisements you will find in this 

 book (as beneficial and important, even if they are "advertisements," and 

 paid for to insert), as in using these already prepared vermifuges you 

 cannot go amiss if their directions, and what I say as to administering them, 

 is followed. I have used every one of them, and it is far better to use 

 some one of these well known worm .remedies that are made for dogs by 

 reliable and experienced parties in treating dogs, than to take chances or 

 go to the trouble of having other prescriptions filled. I am not getting 

 paid extra to recommend anyone's vermifuge, for I would not do so unless 

 I thought and believed the article would save puppies — my main object 

 in this book being to do good to dogs. I could give you — as most dog 

 books do give — a lot of prescriptions, but only give one, so that in case 

 you do not happen to have on hand, or cannot get one of these mentioned, 

 then you could get this one filled and use till you could order one of the 

 others. Right here I want to say — never use areca nut for worms in any 

 form, or any vermifuge that contains this dangerous drug if you know 

 it, for while it expels the worms by the "fast train" route, it also kills 

 more dogs by far than it ever saves. Areca nut is a relic of a past decade 

 — avoid its use. 



The following article on Symptoms of Worms, was published in Field 

 and Fancy, (I think written by F. J. Skinner), and certainly worthy of 

 space in this book: 



