104 PARASITOLOGY. 



nausea and vomiting are noted. Cats infested by 

 large numbers of them show symptoms of nervous- 

 ness and loss of appetite with various digestive dis- 

 orders. The cat sits around and is dull and stupid. 



Treatment. — The same as in the dog, with corres- 

 pondingly smaller doses. 



Fig. 38 



Fig. 39a. 



Fig. Z^. — Ascaris inflexa, round worms from the first 

 portion of the intestines of a hen. Natural size. a. female; 

 b, male. 



Fig. 39a. — Heterakis papillosa. na'tural size: a. female; 

 b, male. — ^From Kaiipp's Diseases of Poultry. 



Fig. 39. — Heterakis papillosa, round worm, head end 

 only, from the caecum (blind gut) of a hen, magnified: a, 

 mouth; b, oesophagus (gullet). 



Ascaris Inflexa (Inflexis — to bend). 

 Synonym. — Heterakis Inflexa, 



