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spoonfuls, and to the puppy from half a tea-spoonful to a dessert-spoonful, 

 according to age. 



Spirit of Turpentine (Spiritus terebinthincB^. To young puppies give two or 

 three drops mixed in a tea-spoonful of olive oil or a little suet or lard. Old 

 dogs require half an ounce for a dose, which should be mixed with an 

 equal quantity of oil and tied up loosely in a piece of bladder, so as to offer 

 no impediment to being swallowed. 



Kousso (Bray era anthelmintica). Half an ounce is the full dose of this 

 drug, which should be infused in half a pint of boiling water, and when 

 cool, the juice of half a lemon should be added. The dog must be drenched 

 with the whole mixture. Half a drachm is an ample dose for a young 

 puppy, and for intermediate ages in proportion. 



Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium}. From five to thirty grains in syrup or 

 honey. 



Santonine (Artemisia contra, active principle of). The brown variety is 

 the best, the dose being from quarter of a grain to three grains, mixed 

 with eight to fifteen grains of jalap. 



Pomegranate bark (Pimica granatuni). Dose, from one drachm to one ounce 

 of the bark, which is to be infused in cold water for twenty-four hours, 

 and then boiled down to one-half its bulk and filtered. One-third of this 

 quantity is to be given at intervals of half an hour till the whole is 

 taken. 



The leaves and oil of male fern (Filix mas). Dose of the former from 

 ten grains to two drachms; of the oil, from two to ten drops, mixed up 

 with linseed meal. 



OTHER INTERNAL PARASITES. 



The dog is liable to the invasion of Cysticercus celluloses into 

 his muscles, but such cases are extremely rare. I am not aware 

 that any variety of Filaria has been found in the pulmonary 



