342 DISEASES OF DOGS. 



The next kind of worm is the long" round worm, 

 resembling that in the horse. This seldom produces 

 irritation or disease ; unless it exists in great numbers. 



The worm is best expelled by strengthening the 

 system. It preys upon the weakly ; the food should 

 not be too abundant, given at regular times, nutritive 

 in quality, and all pampering or bits between meals 

 should be carefully avoided. The following pills 

 should also be given thrice daily, or these may from 

 time to time be changed for the distemper medicine 

 prescribed at page 334. 



RECIPE (No. 14). 



Stomach and Worm Pills. 



Take — Powdered cinchona bark, six grains ; 

 Extract of belladonna, half a grain ; 

 Hydrochlorate of ammonia, one grain : 

 Make into one pill, with conserve of roses, and give one, two, or 

 three of these, according to size. 



The third kind of worm is composed of a multitude 

 of joints — three or four hundred — and each joint ca- 

 pable of becoming a perfect worm. It is sometimes 

 three or four feet in length. At the upper end is a 

 narrow neck, terminating in a small head, furnished 

 with tentacula, by means of which the animal adheres 

 firmly to the intestine. Even when the bowels are in 

 a manner filled by these worms, it is singular how little 

 inconvenience the dog suffers. The bowels may be 

 so occupied by them that there does not seem to be 

 comfortable room for the whole of these parasites : so 

 joint after joint is detached, and crawls from the anus, 

 about half an inch in length, and flat; and yet the 



