REMEDIES FOR WORMS. 171 



many is the dog whose constitution is destroyed in attempting 

 their removal. Until lately, turpentine was considered to be the 

 only effectual remedy for this worm, for the root of the male fern, 

 though really efficacious, had somehow or other been forgotten. 

 Some remedies which are sufficient to destroy the round worms 

 are totally inert against tape-worm, and because turpentine was 

 found to succeed in the human Tcenia without injury to the 

 patient, it was exhibited in all cases to the dog, though often to 

 the great injury of his constitution. . It is customary to give this 

 powerful remedy to the dog tied up in a piece of bladder or 

 intestine, in order that it may not be rejected by vomiting, which 

 is always the case if given in an emulsion as a drench ; the bladder 

 soon becomes digested, but not until it has passed into the small 

 intestines, and the consequence is that the acrid spirit of turpentine 

 in all its strength is applied to the delicate mucous membrane of 

 the bowel, and produces such a degree of inflammation as will 

 take many weeks, or even months, to recover from. The human 

 stomach, on the contrary, will bear the presence of the turpentine ; 

 and it is there mixed with food and mucus and other diluting 

 matters before it is passed on into the delicate small intestines, 

 and the injury done is consequently small. But, within the last 

 few years, a remedy has been introduced into this country from 

 Abyssinia, which destroys the tape-worm without any appreciable 

 injury to the constitution, and acts equally well upon man and 

 dogs. This remedy is the Kousso, of which four drachms to one 

 ounce, according to the age and size of the dog, should be infused 

 in half a pint of boiling water ; the whole, when cold, should be 



