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Recent Agricultural Puhlications. 
In consequence of tlie serious nature of gid and the unsatisfactory 
results of treatment, nothing is done to cm-e affected sheep, which 
are usually sent to the butcher. But special reasons, chiefly re- 
lating to the value of individual animals, may present themselves in 
favour of curative treatment, methods of which are described in the 
✓olume. 
What is more immediately to the interest of the flock-master is 
to prevent, if possible, the appearance of gid. With this object it is 
recommended that the number of dogs should be kept at a minimum. 
At least once a year, at the beginning of spring, dogs should be freed 
of tapeworms. For this pui’pose a tseniafuge, consisting of two to 
eight grammes, in capsule or pill, of the ethereal extract of male 
shield fern, administered after a twenty-four hours’ fast, usually 
produces a prompt result. If the dog is kept by himself, the ex- 
pelled Tsenite may be collected and burned. The heads of sheep 
which have suffered from gid 
should be boiled or burned, and 
never left to dogs to eat. It is 
further suggested to prohibit 
the use, by young sheep, of 
certain wet pastures where the 
germs of gid are more particularly 
preserved. 
{CephnJomijia oiis, Latreille) ; maguiCeJ 
five diameters. — llailliet. 
Fig. 9.— Larvae of CEdru.^ ovis in the hollows 
behind the frontal bouc (^the frontal 
sinuses) of the sheep's skull. 
Through the courtesy of the publishers we give the foregoing speci- 
mens of the illustrations in Neumann’s “ Parasites.” 
By his translation of this masterly work. Dr. Fleming has been 
enabled to fill an obvious void in English technical literature. 
Whilst Spencer Cobbold, Andrew Murray, and other writers have 
left behind them useful treatises on one or another branch of the 
subject, there is no work that can approach that of Neumann either 
in comprehensiveness or in completeness. There is reason to believe 
that the distinguished Honorary Member of our Society, the trans- 
lator and annotator of Neumann, entertains the very highest opinion 
of the author’s work. Probably there is no other treatise of the 
kind, not even in human medicine, which can approach it, so that 
it is certain to benefit in a high degree both agricultural and 
veterinary science. It is capable of giving a great impetus to the 
study of helminthology and allied subjects in all English-speaking 
countries, and may thus aid in the extinction of parasitic diseases in 
man and beast. All who seek information upon the subject of 
