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the lower part of the body. They become dull, hopeless- 

 looking, and leave the flock. 



Swine beside the general symptoms have unusual voracity, 

 and yet lose flesh, cough, scour, start from rest or sleep with a 

 sharp cry, scream excessively just before feeding, have colicky 

 pains, tender abdomen and vomiting, and many even suffer from 

 palpitations (thumps), vertigo, or convulsions. 



Dogs suffer from inordinate appetite, wasting, itchy skin, 

 staring coat, or loss of hair, indigestions, colics, occasional 

 scouring or vomiting, foetid breath, and itching anus shown by 

 their frequently licking it or drawing it along the ground. Like 

 swine they may show irritable temper, starting without cause, 

 palpitations, vertigo, or convulsions. 



Treatment — This may be divided into the administration of 

 agents to kill the worms, of purgatives to carry off" them and 

 their eggs, and of tonics to overcome the weakness and the 

 accumulations of mucus in which they live and thrive. 



The diet for herbivora should be grain in summer, or in 

 winter sound natural hay salted, with carrots, turnips, or beets, 

 and, in the horse, at least, some of the more nutritive grains 

 (oats, barley, beans, corn, linseed cake, etc.), ground or un- 

 ground. Pigs may also have green food, roots, a liberal supply 

 of grain, and if available, buttermilk. Dogs may have salt 

 meat with soups and milk. 



Before giving a vermifuge let the bowels be cleared out by a 

 purgative (horse, aloes ; ox or sheep, Glauber salts ; swine, dog, 

 or chicken, castor-oil). It should also be given fasting before 

 the morning's feed, and, if the worms exist in the large intes- 

 tines, by injection as well as by the mouth. 



A great list of vermifuges may be mentioned, some destructive 

 to intestinal worms in general ; others particularly adapted to 

 specific parasites ; while some that are safe and efficacious for 

 one class of patients would prove poisonous to another. 



One class destroys worms by the mechanical irritation of 



