350 KENNEL DISEASES. 
Mr. Sewall, the English authority, recommends for tape-worm the follow- 
ing combination, which may be justly termed a ‘‘shot-gun mixture,” for it 
must scatter and hit the mark somewhere, and likely in several places: 
Powdered areca nut, one drachm; oil of male fern, one-half a drachm; 
santonin, four grains; croton-oil, three minims ; olive-oil, one ounce. 
This is considered a dose for a strong and healthy St. Bernard and dogs of 
similar size; while two-thirds of it is recommended for a collie and the like; 
and one-fourth for a fox-terrier and others of about his weight. For toys it 
would be rather too powerful; nor should it be given to puppies. 
The croton-oil in this, and the jalap in the santonin and areca nut mixture, 
ought to move the bowels freely, but if not, they must be followed by castor- 
oil in the course of two hours. 
Often there are round-worms with tape-worms in the same intestine ; and it 
is in such cases that these combinations of powerful vermifuges and purga- 
tives have their happiest effects. 
Recently naphthalin has been highly recommended as a tape-worm de- 
stroyer; some authorities who have used it extensively believing it to be 
superior to all other remedies, both in the certainty of action and absence 
of any poisonous effect. To puppies six months old or over, of medium and 
largest breeds, also to mature dogs of the same breeds, after a day of fasting, 
ten grains can be given in one tablespoonful of castor-oil. Where the subjects 
treated are puppies, a second similar dose — that also in like quantity of castor- 
oil — ought to follow in the course of half an hour; while to all mature dogs 
it would be advisable to give three such doses, — all with oil, — and this inter- 
val be allowed between each. For fox-terriers and others of about their size, 
the dose of naphthalin may be seven grains; and about four grains would be 
right for the toys. Given to the former, each dose ought to be in one-half a 
tablespoonful of castor-oil. With toys, as well, this remedy should be in 
oil, but the quantity of it ought not to be more than one teaspoonful. To 
these little ones, as to puppies of medium or largest size breeds, two doses 
should be administered, and the interval between each be about half an hour. 
After waiting three or four hours for the bowels to move, and they failing to 
do so, it would be well to stimulate them with castor-oil, and employ about 
the same quantity that had been given with each dose of the naphthalin. 
Chloroform alone acts exceedingly well in many cases of tape-worm}; and 
its good effect is intensified when combined with croton-oil. 
Being highly irritating, in giving chloroform to dogs it must be in some 
viscid liquid which will prevent this ill effect, as mucilage, syrup, yolk of 
egg, etc. Were the ingredients at hand and the chloroform and croton-oil 
mixture to be prepared at home, the yolk of an egg should be beaten until 
light, then those drugs added, and all be quickly put into a bottle several times 
larger than actually required, that it may be shaken before use. 
