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but when accompanied and complicated by the presence of other 

 worms — Strongyliis Contovtiis — infesting the Hning membrane of the 

 fourth stomach and bowels, and setting up an extensive and exhaustive 

 diarrhoea, i.e. scour, the matter is then very serious. This complication 

 causes great pam and induces the afifected animals to drink large 

 quantities of water, there is rapid emaciation, and death soon follows. 



339. The lambs pick up the ova or eggs of these worms on unsound 

 or contaminated pastures, and a few hours is quite sufficient to infect 

 a whole flock. This is a matter of vast importance to both seller and 

 buyer, as both may have good sound grazing lands, and yet the lambs 

 may contract the malady in transit from one place to the other, by 

 being put on to an unsound grazing pasture for a few hours rest on 

 their journey, particularly in August and September. Treatment 

 must be energetic so as to kill the worms in the lungs ; for this purpose, 

 fumigations of sulphur, chlorine, or iodine fumes can be used. The 

 stovmg should be repeated about every third or fourth day, while the 

 strength of the patient must be maintained by good nutritious and 

 easily digestible foods, such as linseed jelly, milk and eggs, gruels, &c., 

 to which should be added 10 to 15 grains exsiccated iron, and one 

 dessert-spoonful of common salt once a day, also a dessert-spoonful 

 of turpentine, mixed with one tea-cupful of raw linseed oil, or one 

 wine-glassful of cod-liver oil, and a little milk may be carefully given 

 as a drench every third or fourth day. The lands on which the lambs 

 have contracted the disease should also be dressed, in June or July, 

 with six to eight cwt. crushed rock salt to the acre, to destroy the ova 

 and their hosts. 



