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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



tained are put in without regard to niucli tech- 

 nical c^xplanation.) 



Symptoms oi worms are debility, feeble- 

 ness, .sluggish movements, emaciation, staring 

 coat, hide bound, skin covered with blotches, 

 iri'egular and capricious appetite, tucked up 

 belly, pallid appearance of the lining mem- 

 brane of the lip, badly digested fseces, rubs 

 the tail, and where fundament worms exist, a 

 whitish substance will be found about the fun- 

 dament. Many horses have worms, and their 

 presence is never suspected till they appear in 

 the dune-. Troublesome diarrhea is sometimes 

 pi-oduced by the presence of ascarides in the 

 ccBcum, and are sometimes 

 found in vast numbers in 

 the rectum. 



Treatment. — Th(i hori5o 



should 1)0 put on bran 

 Fig. 79.5. — Ascaride in r< i n 



mystax. mashes for a tew days, then 



,, , , _ , giveliininothing but water 



a. Male; h. Female; » _ ° 



f, d. The expansion of for eight or ten liours, then 

 l".Tet„."".a.r givett- following dreueh:- 



1 (^uart linseed nil, 



2 ounces spirits of turpentine. 



In an hour after give a warm bran mash, 

 and next morning give a dose of physic. If 

 thought necessarv, in about a M^eek this nuu' 

 be repeated. 



Dr. Somerville claimed there was no better 



medicine for the destruction of worms than -^- Young -worm as 



. . • 1 I. 1 rolled up in the body of 



calomel, and advised it to be given m the fol- the mother ; j}. The 



lowing combinations :— ^f"" unrolled in a drop 



® of water ; o. Head, with 



3 drachms calomel, the protuberances and 



,11.. .• mouth; i>. Origiu of the 



i drachm tartar emetic. , ., ' .^. '1 



tail, with the anus 



Mix, and divide into three pov/ders, one to ho ^ ^^ ®' ^•'' 



given at night for three successive nights, to be followed in twenty-four hours 



with a good purging ball. Or, — 



Fic. 796.— Young Fila- 

 ria thread-worm. 



