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No. 6. — Let the animal fast for fifteen liours at least ; give liim 

 from a half to three-quarters of a gallon of potatoes which have 

 become green by exposure to the atmosphere (no other food for two 

 hours after). Tape and other worms will be voided. 



No. 7. — The nuts (powdered) of the areca catechu are good as a 

 vermifuge. Give a couple of the nuts (about Joz.) in powder twice 

 or thrice a week in the animal's mash, for two or three weeks, after 

 which a dose of physic (4 dr. or 5 dr. of aloes) will have the desired 

 effect. If the areca nut is refused it may be powdered and made 

 into a couple of boluses with linseed-meal and boiling water, when 

 it may easily be given. 



No. 8. — Try hot grains after being taken from the mash-tub. It 

 often answers. 



No. 9. — One pint of cold-drawn linseed oil will be found a cure ; 

 but perfect rest must be given while it remains in the stomach. 

 The worms will surfeit themselves with the oil, and so die, when 

 they will be discharged in the course of nature. 



No. 10. — Put into the food of the horses some rye, more and more 

 till the horses void dead worms. This should be continued for some 

 time, so that the spawn has time to vivify. Or, give the horses the 

 young shoots of the silver fir, as many as they like to eat. Most 

 horses like them. If the silver a re not to had, try any other fir. 

 The oftener the better. 



No. 11. Grive daily in a bran mash a drachm of potassio-tartrate of 

 antimony, and on every sixth day administer a ball of aloes (odr.) To 

 prevent worms, allow your animals to drmk water with a little salt 

 in it, three or four times a week. 



No. 12. — Common linseed oil, one pint, mixed with^oz. of spirits 

 of turpentine. 



No. 13. — Inject 1 pint linseed oil mixed with 3 dr. spirits of tur- 

 pentine. 



No. 14. — Feed him plentifully, and administer daily for three 

 weeks a ball containing a drachm of the iodide of iron, after which 

 give a purgative (odr. of aloes). 



No. 15. — Areca nut will expel them ; but when they infest the 

 rectum, an injection composed of two quarts of warm water, with 

 loz. of soft soap and 2oz. of oil of turpentine, is the best remedy, 

 and may be employed in conjunction with the areca nut powder. 



No. 16. — When emaciation is one of the symptoms of bad con- 

 dition, and parasites are known to be present, doses of calomel and 

 tartarised antimony may be given for several successive mornings, 

 and be followed by a mild aloetic purge. A half drachm each of 



