78 



stnall dog. The powder is to be rubbed up with butter. Follow iu two 

 hours by a table-spoouful of castor-oil. 



Dr. Hageu advises treatment of all sheep dogs each, spring and fall, 

 thereby claiming an increased immunity for the sheep from the cysticerci. 

 He recommends the following: Take of the oxide of copper 80 grains, 

 of powdered chalk and Armenian bolus 40 grains each ; of water sufli- 

 cient to mix the ingredients into an adherent mass ; divide into one 

 hundred pills ; administer one three times daily for ten days by crush- 

 iug them iu a piece of meat or bread and butter. 



In addition toother remedies lloll prescribes the following: (Each 

 dose is for large dogs. For smaller ones proportionately less ought to 

 be given.) (1) Extract of male fern and the powder of male-fern, 2 

 drams each. (2) A decoction of 2^- ounces of pomegranate-root bark in 

 water, reduced to G fluid ounces, and add 1 dram of extract of male-fern, 

 to be given in two doses an hour apart. (3) From one-half to 1 ounce 

 kousso formed into pills with honey or molasses, and a little meal. (4) 

 From 1^- to 2^ drams of Kamala stirred with honey or water, and given 

 in two doses inside of an hour. He advises a preliminary preparation 

 by feeding the dogs sparingly for two or three days previous on salted 

 food, and the administration of castor-oil the evening before. The rem- 

 edies proposed are to be mixed with some material to make them fairly 

 acceptable to the patients. With the exception of kamala, which acts 

 as a cathartic, all should be followed in two hours by castor-oil. 



After any treatment the patients should be fed with some liquid diet 

 on the first day. After this they may receive any wholesome food. 



The necessity of repeating a treatment depends entirely on the 

 efficacy of the first, and the care exercised iu preventing a re-infection. 

 If the treatment has been successful in removing the worms, heads and 

 all, of course no further treatment will be required. If onlj' portions 

 have, been removed, then another dosing is necessary. For tceiiia mar- 

 ginata another treatment need not occur under eight weeks, for the 

 tape- worm is harmless as far as sheep are concerned up to that period, 

 for, as far as is kuown, the worm will not throw off segments before that 

 time. For T. coenurus the treatment should be repeated in about two 

 weeks. 



Preventive treatment. — The great resource of the flockmaster lies in 

 prevention. In this he has nearly absolute control over the health of 

 his sheep, in so far as Tcenia marginata and T. coenurus are concerned. 

 As the dogs can only get these taenia from eating viscera of the sheep, 

 all the viscera of slaughtered or dead sheep should be withheld from 

 them, and either buried, burned, or rendered. 



Police sanitation. — Sheep-killing dogs should be destroyed. Each 

 owner should keep his dogs at home, so that all strange dogs may be 

 killed iu order to prevent them from harming sheep and scattering the 

 taenia eggs far and wide over the pastures and in the drinking places. 

 Dog laws ought to be made sufficiently stringent and adequate tor the 

 protection of sheep. 



