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than blue Mercurial ointment; while internally, Arsenicum alburn^ 

 Sulphur and Calcarea curb may be administered with advantage. 



INTERNAL PARASITES. 



According to the late Dr. Cobbold, a well-known teacher of 

 Helminthology at the Ro5'al A^eterinary College, in Ivondon the 

 species of parasites that infest the horse are fairly numerous, but 

 their importance in relation to disease is of less consequence than 

 is the case with some other orders of domesticated animals. Tape 

 worms are rarely found in the horse and are at all times compara- 

 tively small in size. The most commonly found parasites, are the 

 Ascaris Megalocephala a long round worm, and the Oxyuris 

 Curoula or maw worm; these, however, are with comparative 

 ease got rid of; the former by a few doses of Aloes, followed bj" a 

 course of Sulphate of Iron in moderately substantial doses — say 

 half a drachm ever}^ other day mixed with the usual medical 

 aromatics; or from one to three ounces — according to the size of 

 the animal — of Oil of Turpentine mixed with linseed oil, from half 

 a pint to a pint will generally serve to destro}^ numbers of these 

 large parasites. 



For the maw worm whose habitat is the rectum and colon, an 

 enema of solution of Quassia three or four days in succession will 

 generally dislodge these irritating little parasites, whose presence 

 can always be determined, even though the worms are not 

 observed among the faeces, by the whitish deposit round the 

 fundament, the attention being first drawn to the horse con- 

 tinually endeavoring to rub his tail against the sides of the stall. 

 The internal administration of Cina 3X, night and morning, for a 

 month consecutively has a very favorable influence on the consti- 

 tution and doubtless produces such a healthy state of the mucous 

 membrane lining the intestinal canal, that the locality becomes 

 unfavorable to the life and existence of these parasites. There is 

 one torm of parasite designated the Stroxgylus Armatus which 

 gives rise in old horses to aneurisms oi the mesenteric artery; but 

 its presence is not easily diagnosed with any certainty even by 

 specialists, so that no useful purpose would be served by attempt- 

 ing to suggest a prescription; were we to do so, seeing that it is 

 included among the class of round worms, we should recommend 

 a long course of Cina 3X on the principle already laid down. lu 



