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to get rid of her enemies ; and, at the same time, by an 

 appropriate diet, by soothing drinks, gruel, linseed tea, &c., 

 followed up by bitter tonic drinks, rid the intestinal mem- 

 brane of its inflammatory irritation, and afterwards restore 

 its healthy condition. Which done, we may, if necessary, 

 have recourse to our anthelmintics. These '' ideks,^^ which 

 D'Arboval modestly submits to our consideration, sous la 

 forme dubitative, are well worthy of our attention. Hitherto, 

 as we all indeed know, little enough has been effected by 

 medicine in this department: these novel views may possibly 

 lead to the accompHshment of something more satisfactory. 



My present treatment for the ascarides and strongyli 

 consists principally in the administration of enemata : one 

 of the most efficacious I find to be the 



Terehinthinate Enema, which, for horses, I compound as 

 follows : — 



R 01. Terebinthinas, ^vj ; 

 Vitelli ovi, Tf^j ; 

 Decoct. Avense, Ovj. 



Tere Terebinth, c. Vitello douec bene incorporantur deinde adde paulatiiu de- 

 coctura. 



This injection may be repeated at the end of a few days, 

 or continued twice or thrice a week, the interval being 

 occupied in giving smart doses of cathartics. An unexpected 

 occurrence followed the exhibition of a clyster of this 

 description. The horse had had a free discharge after the 

 clyster upon some granite pavement (in Nuedton shoeing- 

 yard), and a little while after Mr. C. Sturt came to me in 

 the surgery to observe, how what the horse had voided had 

 brought the earth-worms out of the ground, through the 

 interspaces of the pavement. There were above a dozen 

 good sized worms crawling about in the liquid dung (and 

 some ascaris with them), which former, though lively at first, 

 appeared soon much less so, and to have lost all power of 

 entering the earth again, and in about two hours were found 

 dead . 



Should the terehinthinate enema not prove cfiectual, 1 



