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Prevention. Prevent dogs from eating the raw offal of 

 herbivora. Destroy and expel the tape-worm of the dog with 

 taeniacides. Avoid keeping dogs in numbers where stock pasture, 

 where fodder for stock is raised, or where the water for stock 

 runs or stands. 



Distoma Hepaticum. Morot has found a specimen encysted 

 under the parietal peritoneum of a cow. 



INTESTINAL PARASITES IN SHEEP AND GOAT. 



Saccharomyces Guttulatus. Lamblia Intestinalis. Coccidium, perforans 

 and ovi/orme. Tape-worms: T. Expansa, Alba a.nA. Benedini, T. Fim- 

 briata, T. Vogti. T. Ovilla. T. Centripunctata : Uterus shows white in 

 centre of ripe segment. T. Globipunctata. Intestinal Round Worms. 

 Ascaris Ovis. Strongylus Filicollis : Front part of body very thin ; in du- 

 odenum and small intestine ; sheep, goat, numerous ; causes irritation, 

 diarrhoea, aneemia, emaciation, dropsy. Prevention; Treatment; Strongy- 

 lus Ventricosus. CEsophagastoma Venulosum in goat, sheep, roe-deer. CE. 

 Columbianum : Narrowed at ends, mouth large, six papillse, two rows teeth, 

 24 each ; the sexually immature occupy the nodules in and under mucosa ; 

 moult three times, mature in intestines ; ova escape with faeces ; embryo 

 forms nodules on large and small intestines, with greenish debris often cal- 

 cified ; also in mesentery, lymph glands, liver ; abundant in winter. Cause 

 debility, emaciation, diarrhoea. Prevention: Do not pasture a field with 

 sheep for two successive years ; avoid drainage from infested fields ; put 

 land under rotation ; pure water from deep wells ; salt freely. Treatment : 

 Uncinaria Cernua : Armed mouth opening upward through bend of body ; 

 14 to 28 mm. long ; in small intestine ; sheep, goat ; in Gulf Coast States ; 

 ovum hatches in 15 days in manure ; devitalized by frost ; embryo moults 

 four times; living in water or moist earth. Symptoms: Low condition, 

 anaemia, debility, weakness, dropsies, etc. Treatment : Thymol, male fern, 

 gasoline, areca nut, generous diet. Prevention : Admit nothing from in- 

 fected flocks or districts ; avoid infested fields and water, or those manured 

 with manure of sheep folds ; newly seeded pastures yearly ; keep from wet 

 pastures ; salt freely. Sclerostoma Hypostomum. : Round mouth turned 

 down, double row teeth, 10 to 24 mm. long ; in large intestine and ileum ; 

 sheep, goat, chamois, argali, roe buck, etc. ; eggs discharged with faeces. 

 Cause local congestion, catarrh, ansmia, emaciation. Prevention : Treat- 

 ment : Tricocephalus Affinis ; Anguillula Longus : Intestinal parasites of 

 goat. 



Saccharomyces Guttulatus is found in the intestinal con- 

 tents of sheep as well as of cattle. 



