DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 1 03 



cake, roots, maize, oats, beans, or other sound nutritious diet, 

 to which may be added a mixture in equal parts of sulphate of 

 iron, gentian, and ginger, in proportion of four ounces to every 

 ten calves of three months. To destroy the intestinal worms, 

 give every morning, fasting, a tablespoonful of table salt, or an 

 equal amount of oil of turpentine shaken up with milk. For 

 the lung parasites, place the affected animals in a close building, 

 and burn pinch after pinch of flowers of sulphur on a piece of 

 paper laid on an iron shovel, until the air is as much charged 

 with the fumes as they can bear without coughing violently. 

 The administrator must stay with them in the building to avoid 

 accidents and keep up the application for half an hour at a time. 

 It should be repeated several days in succession, and at 

 intervals of a week for several weeks, so as to kill the young 

 worms as they are hatched out in successive broods, and not 

 until all cough and excitement of breathing have passed should 

 the animal be considered as safe to mix with others or to go 

 on a healthy pasture. 



SYMPTOMS IN SHEEP, GOAT, AND CAMEL. VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS. 



These are the exact counterpart of those in the calf. There 

 is a short, dry, sonorous cough, with a frothy discharge from 

 the nose containing worms or their eggs, loss of appetite, rapid 

 wasting, diarrhoea, shedding or drying and flattening of the 

 wool, excessive thirst, and irregular or depraved appetite, there 

 being a disposition to eat earth. In the advanced stages the 

 cough becomes very harrassing, and death may ensue from 

 suffocation. Intestinal parasites [Strongylus Coniortus, S. 

 Radiaius, S. Filicolis, Sclerostomum Hypostomtim, Tcenia Ex- 

 pansa, and perhaps Sclerostomum Duodenale), are even more 

 numerous and injurious than in calves. 



Prevention. — All the measures advised for the disease in 

 calves will apply equally well here, with this proviso, that the 

 parasites only affect sheep, goat, dromedary, and carnel, so that 



