THE COMMON DISEASES OF SWINE. 



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IX. Other Intestinal Parasites. 



These are numerous. The lard worm ( IStephanurus Dentatus) and the 

 kidney worm {Eustrongylus Gigas) are the most common, except those 

 tvhich produce the measles. Once they have found lodg- 

 ment, there is little to be done, and the swine had 

 better be killed immediately and converted into grease 

 to avoid danger. The lard worm is from one to one 

 and three-fourths inches long, by one-thirteenth inch 

 broad, and is found in almost ail parts of the body. It is 

 often found in the liver, and the fat about the rib, heart 

 the air passages, etc. 



The Eustrongylus Gigas is found in the kidneys, which 

 it lives on till the whole is eaten, and then it attacks the 

 capsule enclosing the kidney and eats its way through 

 into the intestinal cavity, and causes death from nervous 

 prostration or inflammation. The kidney worm grows to 

 enormous size — the gigas means the giant — it being found 

 from one to three feet long and from a quarter to a half ""^^.^^Ati^imtl 

 inch in diameter. It is sometimes found in the intestiuee. -('^«*^'"-> 



Worms in Hogs:— Worms in hogs are best treated, in ordinary eases, by- 

 giving a teaspoonful of copperas to each one once a day in the feed. 

 X. Parasites of the Skin— Mange or Scab. 



Scab is produced by a small itch insect {Sarcoptis /iSm's), and the 

 disease may be communicated to man. If the animals appear uneasy 



STEPHANURUS 



DENTATUS 



OR LARD 



WORM. 



EUSTRONGYLUS GIGAS (Cuvier.) 



examine them with a glass. Mange should be no more \;leiated than the 

 itch in children. 



What to do. — Give the animal, immediately, and thereafter once p day 

 for a fortnight, the following as a dose : 



No. 16. )^ Ounce flowers of sulphur, 



1 Drachm nitrate of -jotaaiLw 



