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from all opportunity for taking in the worm. With a liberal 

 supply of milk the lambs do not care to drink water and though 

 they eat from racks and troughs with the ewes they do not find 

 there the young strongylus filaria which has already moulted and 

 prepared for a new lease of life in the lungs. The ewes may be 

 treated or prepared for the butcher. 



Infested fields may be plowed and cropped for years before being 

 laid down to grass. Or they may be pastured for two years by 

 horses or cattle which do not harbor the lung worms of sheep, and 

 the larva of the latter meanwhile perish. 



The carcases of all infested sheep should be burned, boiled or 

 deeply buried, or the lungs should be carefully removed and treated 

 in this way. 



Constant access to salt is a means of destroying the young worms 

 as they are taken in. 



A nourishing ration of fariua or cake of linseed, rape or cotton, 

 or of oats, barley, maize, or peas is of great value in sustaining 

 the strength. of the patient and enabling it to outlive the parasite. 



Treatment. First : Stop the entrance of the fresh worms by 

 methods suggested under prevention. Second: Sustain the 

 strength of the patient by a generous grain diet. Third : Destroy 

 the pulmonary (and intestinal) parasites. Foiirth : Combat 

 pneumonia and other complications. 



A combination of a tonic and vermifuge has been sought in the 

 ferruginous, bitter, aromatic food recommended for distomatosis. 

 Spinola advised sodium chloride 5 parts and tar, tansy and 

 absinthum, i part of each mixed and given in the food. Zurn 

 recommends : wormwood and sweet fern root, 3 lbs. of each, 

 tansy, bone dust, and copperas r lb. of each, mixed and given in 

 a dose of 3 to 4 drachms daily to each lamb. A liberal allowance 

 of garlic or onions will be beneficial and may be added to one of 

 the above mixtures. Asafcetida may be similarly used. 



As direct vermifuges the following have been tried but with no 

 very satisfactory results. Picrate of potash (dose 3 to 4 grains) 

 in oatmeal gruel or mucilage (Neumann) is dangerous because of 

 its destructive action on the blood globules Creosote i oz.; spirits 

 of wine 4 ozs. ; water 6 ozs.; dose a teaspoonful daily in 

 mucilage. Creosote 2 ozs.; benzine 10 ozs.; water 2 qts. ; dose a 

 tablespoonful daily for a week. Oil of turpentine and tincture of 



