60 THE GREYHOUND. 



Take, as an example, the well-known case of the Tcenia 

 ccenurus, one of the tapeworms that infest the dog. Sections 

 of this worm, full of ripe ova, are passed by the dog with 

 his excrement, and scattered on the grass; some of these 

 are swallowed by the sheep ; hatched in the stomachs of 

 these animals they find their way to the brain, and there form 

 those bladder worms which cause the well-known disease, 

 "gid." Located there, the coenurus increases by budding, 

 and the luckless dog that afterwards eats the head of 

 the sheep that dies of, or when suffering from, " gid " or 

 " sturdy," very soon has a plentiful crop of tapeworms in 

 his intestines for thus is the circle of this parasite's life 

 completed. Now, the worms that destroy very young puppies 

 are nematodes, or round worms, of the life history and 

 itinerary of which I am ignorant. But it has occurred to 

 me that as puppies appear to be born with these worms, 

 or their ova, in them, there could be no other source of 

 the parasites than the food supplied to the pups whilst in 

 the uterus. 



I have thought it needful to give this somewhat 

 lengthy exposition of my reason for recommending a 

 course which I have no better authority for than my own. 

 I have personally found it answer; but an individual ex- 

 perience is too limited to be taken to settle a question, 

 and of the hundreds of breeders to whom I have recom- 

 mended the practice through The Bazaar newspaper, with 

 which I am connected, very few have taken the trouble 

 to state the result, although such a course would have 

 been very useful to others. 



To prevent worms in the future offspring, expel them 

 from the bitch, for it is clear that if there are no 



