272 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



and many even suffer from palpitations (thumps), vertigo 

 or convulsions. 



Dogs STiffer from inordinate appetite, wasting, iichy 

 skin, staring coat or loss of hair, indigestions, colics, oc- 

 casional scouring or vomiting, foetid breath, and itching 

 anus shov^n by their frequently licking it or drawing it 

 along the ground. Like swine they may show irritable 

 temper, starting without cause, palpitations, vertigo or 

 convulsions. 



Treatment. This may be divided into the administration 

 of agents to kill the worms, of purgatives to carry off them 

 and their eggs, and of tonics to overcome the weakness and 

 the accumulations of mucus in which they Uve and thrive. 



The diet for herbivora should be grain in summer, or in 

 winter sound natural hay salted, with carrots, turnips or 

 beets, and, in the horse at least, some of the more nutri- 

 tive grains (oats, barley, beans, corn, linseed cake, etc.,) 

 ground or unground. Pigs may also have green food, 

 roots, a hberal supply of grain, and if available, buttermilk. 

 Dogs may have salt meat with soups and milk. 



Before giving a vermifuge let the bowels be cleared out 

 by a purgative (horse, aloes ; ox or sheep, Glauber salts ; 

 swine, dog or chicken, castor-oil). It should also be 

 given fasting before the morning's feed and, if the worms 

 exist in the large intestines, by injection as well as by the 

 mouth. 



A great list of vermifuges may be mentioned, some de- 

 structive to intestinal worms in general; others particu- 

 larly adapted to specific parasites ; while some that are 

 safe and efficacious for one class of patients would prove 

 poisonous to another. 



One class destroys worms by the mechanical irritation of 

 their skin and perhaps their intestinal canal. It includes 

 iron filings, granulated tin or tin filings, very finely pow- 

 dered glass, and cowhage. These are given in doses of 

 ^ oz. to the large quadrupeds, 1 dr. to sheep and swine, 

 3r 1 scr. to dogs, made into a ball with linseeed meal 



