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cases the weakness increases and the animal is 

 unable to stand and soon dies. 



Treatment: This worm is easily removed by 

 medicine. I have had good results from the fol- 

 lowing: Give half an ounce of the fluid extract of 

 spigelia and senna at a dose every four hours until 

 purging takes place, or thirty grains of koosin as 

 a pill; one dose of this is usually sufficient An- 

 other good remedy is to beat up two ounces of 

 pumpkin seeds into a pulp with sugar and give 

 at one dose; this should be followed in four hours 

 with a brisk physic, castor oil or epsom salts. San- 

 tonine is also useful in from three to five grain 

 doses made into a pill. Chenopodie oleum (worm 

 seed oil) in from twenty to thirty drops may be 

 given in a little syrup, followed in two hours by a 

 purge. These medicines should be given on an 

 empty stomach. If the animal has become very 

 weak the strength should be kept up by stimulants 

 such as small doses of whisky and cod-liver oil, or 

 whisky and eggs; and if there is fever two to four 

 grains of quinine should be given at a dose three 

 times a day. 



OXURIS VERMICULARIS (PIN WORM.) 



Figure 78. 



Figure 78. — The seat of this worm is the rectum, 



