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this class of worm it is no easy task, as they depend upon the hfe 

 blood of the host for their sustenance and, not as many other 

 worms do hve upon the food taken by the host; the proper and 

 only successful treatment under such circumstances is to admin- 

 ister a remedy that will render the mucous membrane of the 

 intestinal canal incompatible with the nourishment and existence 

 of these parasites; this is to be done, not by destroying the para- 

 sites by means of strong poisonous drugs, but by the admin- 

 istration of a remedy that will restore the mucous membrane to a 

 thoroughly healthy state. A very troublesome and dangerous 

 form of diarrhoea occasionally arises as the result of an over dose 

 of purgative medicine, producing a condition known as super- 

 purgation; or it may occur from undue exposure to cold or from 

 being put to work while an ordinary dose of purgative medicine 

 is operating; under such circumstances it is not wise to trust en- 

 tirely to the recuperative powers of nature, some counteracting 

 remedy must be administered to check the excessive purgation. 



The common practice is to endeavor to arrest diarrhoea by ad- 

 ministering drugs that act as astringents, but these measures are 

 unsatisfactory, unreliable and not infrequently extremely prejudi- 

 cial; they merely temporize and do not go to the root of the matter, 

 inasmuch, that while one symptom is temporarily relieved others 

 are aggravated and as a consequence a recurrence takes place. 



Treatment. — Aloes 6x. — Loose motions accompanied b}' great 

 straining, soreness and raw appearance of the anus; animal ap- 

 pears weak and exhausted after a motion ; quantities of gelatinous- 

 looking material comes away with the stool. 



Antimo7iiuni criidum 3X. — Diarrhoea which alternates with con- 

 stipation; dung balls are coated with mucus; rumbling in the ab- 

 domen due to fermentation of ingesta; inability to retain water, 

 urine thick and cloudy; animal is troubled with flatulence, is ex- 

 tremely drowsy and loses flesh rapidly; occasionally an eruption 

 of the skin, the formation of pimples which suppurate and burst 

 is present; the tongue is coated with a thick fur down the middle. 



Acid phosphoricum 3X. — Exhausting diarrhoea of long standing, 

 apparently painless and the animal is unable to retain its faeces, 

 c<^)nstanth' passing some involuntaril)^ 



Arsenicum allnan 3X. — Diarrhoea with extreme weakness and 

 emaciation; constant desire to drink; extremities cold; skin rough 



