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snap and bite at anything within reach, or may be seized 

 with fits or spasms. Should the worms find their way into 

 the nose or throat, a frothy spume will be observed coming 

 from the throat and mouth. If your dog presents a woe- 

 begone appearance, you may safely conclude the dog is trou- 

 bled with worms. 



TREATMENT :— Give our 



REMEDY NO. 175 AS DIRECTED. 

 After administering our remedy seen mornings as di- 

 rected, give as a physic one ounce of Castor Oil. This treat- 

 ment will be all that is necessary to destroy the long round 

 worms. 



Price of remedy No. 175, 75 cents. 



TAPEWORM. 



The tapeworm is the most injurious variety of intestinal 

 woims. It gains access to the intestines of the dog, througTi 

 the dog feeding upon contaminated meat. The length of the 

 tapeworm that infests dogs, varies from a few inches to sev- 

 eral feet, and is made up of joints ; each joint measuring 

 from one-eighth to one-half inch in length. After the worm 

 has grown to its full length, as fast as the joints mature, 

 they pass away from the bowels, usually mingled with the 

 excrement, at which time they deposit their eggs. When 

 these eggs or ova are deposited on the grass or other feed, 

 and picked up and taken into the stomachs of hogs, sheep, 

 cattle, rabits, etc., they are in a short time hatched into a 

 free small worm which burrows through the bowels, and 

 locates itself in some part of the flesh or brain, and there 

 becomes encysted until eaten by some person, or some ani- 

 mal, when it developes into another tapeworm. There are 

 two species of tapeworm which infest dogs. But as they re- 



