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the disease, the fact that other cats or dogs, in the same environ- 

 ment, suffer, on the black, liquid, offensive condition of the faeces, 

 and above all on the presence of the uncinaria or its eggs in the 

 discharges. The worms are especially likely to be found by sedi- 

 mentation after the use of vermifuges ("see under Uncinaria 

 Cernua). 



Necropsy shows more or less catarrhal enteritis and the presence 

 of the worms in the duodenum, their color varying with the 

 quantity of blood imbibed. The watery state of the blood and 

 extremely aiisemic condition of the tissues are very noteworthy. 



Treatment is the same as for the same affection in the dog, the 

 agents being given in about ^ the doses. 



Prevention in either genus of animal demands the extinction of 

 the parasite in the other. 



Trichosoma Lineare. This was found by I^eidy in the 

 small intestine of the domestic cat. The male was 3.8 mm. long 

 by .21 mm. broad ; the fem,ale 7.6 mm. long by .35 mm. broad. 

 Body filiform and almost equally attenuated at both ends. Caudal 

 extremity of the /d'wa/if coiled in spiral, terminating obtusely and 

 bearing two conical elevations on the ventral surface. Caudal 

 end of the male spiral, conical and acute. 



Spiroptera Sanguinolenta. At Alfort Veterinary School a 

 specimen of this is labelled as from the cat's intestine. 



OUulanus Tricuspis. The embryos of this worm are found 

 free in the bowels when the mature worm is encysted in the 

 mucosa. 



PARASITES OF THE INTESTINES OF RABBITS. 



Saccharomyces Guttulatus : Coccidian enteritis. Hexamita Duodenalis : 

 Cestodes : Comb-shaped tcenia : T. Rhopaliocephala : Dypilidium Leuc- 

 karti : D. Pectinatum : D. Latissimum : T. Wimerosa : Echinorhynchus. 

 Oxyuris Ambigua : Rabbit and hare ; colon and CEecum ; pointed tail ; 3 

 to II mm. long. Striped Strangle: Has longitudinal striae ; pointed tail ; 

 in csecum, colon and stomach. Retort-shaped Strangle : Trichocephalus 

 Unguiculaius : In csecum and colon. Anguilhila. 



Cryptogams. Saccharomyces Guttulatus is found in the 

 intestine, as in that of ox, sheep and pig, growing in the contents, 

 in the follicles of Peyers patches and in the mucosa around the 

 glands of Lieberkiihn. 



