214 THE FARMER S VETERINARIAN 



LUNG FEVER.— See Inflammation of the 

 Lungs. 

 LUNG WORMS IN LAMBS AND CALVES.— 



It has been proven in years gone by that the com- 

 mon spirits of turpentine, when mixed with sah in 

 proportions of a gill of turpentine to four quarts of 

 common fine salt and placed in a covered box so 

 constructed that sheep and calves can get their 

 head in and eat the salt (yet the salt be protected 

 from the weather), will practically prevent an in- 

 fection. Some have advised the mixing of a half 

 pint of sublimed sulphur with the salt and turpen- 

 tine. There can be no objection to the sulphur 

 when added in the proportions named. This 

 remedy is not a cure but a preventive. In fact 

 there is no cure, as these worms are in the bron- 

 chial tubes and lungs, where no worm destroyer can 

 reach them directly. But when the lamb or calf 

 daily partakes of even a few drops of turpentine, 

 the whole system becomes, to an extent, infected 

 with the turpentine, and as the young worms come 

 into existence, their home in the lungs becomes a 

 very unhealthy home for them and they fail to 

 mature. In some cases mature worms have been 

 removed by injecting a mixture of turpentine, 

 chloroform and olive oil into the windpipe, using 

 about a teaspoonful of this mixture. Its effect is to 

 stupefy the worms that it touches, and they may 

 be coughed out by the suflfering lamb or calf. The 

 fumes of burning sulphur has also been advised 

 by some veterinarians. But both remedies are as 

 liable to kill as cure, and are by no means always 

 successful. The farmer's business should be to 

 prevent, not cure, diseases of this class; therefore 

 prepare the salt box. 



LYMPHANGITIS.— An inflammation of the 



