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but they foon return to their former Hate. The 

 belly likewife is often hard, and fometiraes fuelled. 

 When puppies have worms, the firft that are pafled 

 are feldom but little noticed, for they feem to affed; 

 the health but little ; but gradually purging becomes 

 more frequent, and the animal, though lively, waftes, 

 and his hip-bones may be plainly felt, though the 

 flaring of the coat may make him Itill appear fat : 

 the growth likewife is completely ftopped, and in 

 this way it is very common for puppies to continue, 

 till a fit or two carries them off. In grown dogs, 

 worms are lefs fatal, though, from the obftru6tions 

 they form, they not unfrequently kill ; they like- 

 wife, in grown dogs, produce fits, the firfl of which 

 is pafTed over, and little notice is taken till a fecond 

 appears, and fo on. It does not follow, becaufe no 

 worms are feen to pafs away, that the dog has none; 

 nor, becaufe the}'^ are not feen, does it follow even 

 that none pafs : for if they remain long after they 

 are dead in the inteflines, they are digeftcd like other 

 animal matter : this is frequently the cafe when 

 dogs take medicines that deflroy them ; for they be- 

 come digefted, and pafs away diffolved. 



I wifh I could fay any thing fatisfadory on the 

 cure. Worms occalion fuch an irritability of the 

 bowels, particularly in young dogs, that flrong purg- 

 ing medicines to diflodge them cannot with fafety 

 be given ; and no fubftance that I am acquainted 



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