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the dog dies suddenly, the result of the worm 

 interfering with the action of the heart. 



In making post-mortem examinations of dogs 

 having died from the effect of these parasites, I 

 have found as many as sixty worms in the heart, 

 many of them measuring seven inches long. 



Treatment : There is no known treatment that 

 is likely to be of any service. 



Worms in the Stomach and Bowels : 



Symptoms : Round worms are more frequently 

 found in young puppies than tapeworm, but 

 occasionally the latter are found in puppies six or 

 seven weeks old, whilst the round kind, called 

 Ascaris Marginata, are present in puppies ten days 

 old, when they look like pieces of cotton about 

 an inch to an inch and a half long, and pointed 

 at both ends. When present in such very young 

 puppies they generally cause enteritis and death. 

 A puppy suffering badly from worms does not 

 thrive and grow, he generally eats voraciously. 

 The stomach is distended sometimes to a very 

 great extent, causing difficulty in breathing, the 

 muscles waste, the legs and neck becoming quite 

 thin. The action of the bowels is irregular, but 

 as a rule, there is diarrhoea to a more or less 

 extent, and sometimes vomiting, when the worms 

 have passed into the stomach, and, if the worms 

 are not got rid of, rickets is often the result. 



With tapeworms the symptoms vary con- 

 siderably. Some dogs may be infested with 

 worms and yet not lose flesh, but as the result 

 suffer from eczema, which disappears when the 

 worms have been expelled ; but as a rule, a dog 



