TIIE WORMS-AN UNSETTLED QUESTION. l5| 



Tonic.— No. 1. 



Prepared arsenic, 10 grains, 

 Ginger powdered, 1 drachm, 

 Anise seeds, powdered, 4 drachms, 

 Compound powder of tragacanth, 2 dr. 



Mix with mucilage sufficient for one dose. Give daily for a week, p^ecod^J 

 and followed by mashes, and then give the bark, thus: 



Tonic— No. 2. 



Cascarilla, powdered, 4 ounces. 

 Ginger, 8 drachms, 

 Salt of tartar, 10 grains. 



Mix with mucilage sufficient to form the mass into four balls ; give them daily. 

 If the preparation of arsenic in No. 1 is disliked, substitute the alterative ball 

 at page 147, and follow it up with the bark as above (No. 2). 



The following ball is calculated to improve the coat, and will be found 

 beneficial when the animal is recovering, if given in these proportions for ten 

 days or a fortnight. 



Alterative Balls. 



Tartarized antimony, 3 ounces, 

 Powdered ginger, 2 ounces. 

 Opium, 5 drachms. 



Mix with mucilage sufficient to form the mass, to be divided into ten balls. 



WORMS. 



As remarked in a preceding page, 150, so many other disorders, external 

 as well as internal, have been charged to the existence of worms in the intes- 

 tinal canal by veterinary writers, that we find much difficulty in persuading 

 ourselves that this is not the precise ailment which afflicts the animal when 

 his coat becomes staring, and his skin sticks to his ribs. Most frcquejitly, 

 however, that ugly appearance which denotes hide-bound, and other similai 

 symptoms that depend upon suspended perspiration, arise from tubercular dis- 

 eases of the mesenteric canal (see page 46), and not within the gut or stomach j 

 fir the excess or the suspension of perspirable matter must alike depend upon 

 tomewhat of a more general affection than worms, that fasten on this or thai 

 part of the stomach or intestine (as we are told), and can only influence tiie 

 part they immediately occupy. Unfortunately, we know of no specific cure 

 for worms, the remedies that are usually prescribed being of a hot, burning 

 and destructive nature, that are as likely to injure the intestine as the worm, 

 it becomes our primary duty, therefore, to ascertain when the disorder he real- 

 ly the worms, so as to prescribe the proper remedy when we have ascertained 

 that the fact is so. It is very easy to say a horse " has the worms," and to 

 give him worm medicine ; but much more difficult to ascertain the real fact, 

 than to remove it when well authenticated. Our inquiries, then, shouid bo 

 directed towards this ponit as much as to any other unsettled question — tli<? 

 existence and quality of true glanders, for example; and vet more fine 'earn 



