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dog lUList be fed exceedingly Iiigli cluriiig that time, and also after phy- 

 sicking, as the disease proceeds from weakness of stomach in a great 

 measure ; after three or four doses, physic mildly with salts and sul- 

 phur, feeding very high. Turpentine has also been frequently and suc- 

 cessfully given both in the form of pills made with flower, and also tied 

 up in little pieces of wet bladder-like boluses. I have tried all these re- 

 cipes, but the following is the most efficacious with Avhich I have ever 

 met : — 



Give from half an ounce to an ounce of castor oil, with a teaspoonful 

 of turpentine in it every three or four days for three doses. 



Calomel, six grains 



Tartarized antimony, one grain and a half 

 Powdered jalap, ten grains. 

 To be made into a pill, and to be repeated if necessary, 



is also an excellent prescription for foulness, as it is called in the 

 kennel ; and assists in clearing the stomach from worms. 



The numerous medicines recommended for the cure of worms in dogs 

 may be divided into two classes, the mechanical and chemical. 



The mechanical are those Avhich expel the worms from the stomach, 

 frequently alive, by the pain and irritation they cause to them, as tilings 

 of tin, powder of cowhage, and bruised glass.* The chemical are much 

 more numerous, and of a different nature, generally of a poisonous 

 quality, and causing death to the Avorms before they are brought away 

 from the body. 



By an extract from a formula written by Dr. Thornton in his 

 " Philosophy of Medicine, " I have shown the effect that the different 

 medicines used to cure worms have upon the common earthworm, which, 

 according to naturahsts, is the same in structure, manner of subsistence, 

 and mode of propagating its species with many of the worms found in 

 the bodies of men and animals : — 



SUBSTANCE IN WHICH THE WORMS MINUTES. 



WERE PLACED. 



Aloes, watery infusion of 2 48 



Jalap, ditto 1 — 



Epsom salts, solution of — 15^ 



Corrosive sublimate, ditto — 1^ -s g 



Calomel, a solution of — 49 * S 



Turpeths mineral, ditto — 1 ^*' 



Green vitriol, ditto — 1 '^ o 



Blue ditto, ditto — 10 § ^ 



White ditto, ditto — 30 ^ „ 



FiUngs of steel.. — 25^ rS ^ 



Ditto of tin , 1 — « 5 



Tobacco, infusion of — 14 t. -e 



Turpentine — 6 



Arsenic, solution of 2 — 



^thiops mineral 2 — 



Sulphur 2 — 



Sweetoil 2 30 



Rum — 1 



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'^ It is a curious fact that, during the period that hounds may be fed upon ground 



