PROGRESS OP VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 525 
Oh, but the horse cannot eat, they say. Will he eat better 
for being unlampassed? Is there not systemic excitement 
present during teething, and does not this, in the majority of 
cases, induce a loss of appetite ? Your children, at this period, 
express their suffering by their cries and restlessness, and 
our infantile patient is dull and off his feed. Let a little 
medicine be given, according to the judgment of the prac- 
titioner, and all will be well. 
Your forbearance, Messrs. Editors, for the intrusion of a 
claim on behalf of our equine friend, will, I hope, be freely 
shown by your insertion of this in the only journal devoted 
exclusively to the advancement and promulgation of veterinary 
knowledge in our sea-girt Island. 
CONTEMPORARY PROGRESS OE VETERINARY 
SCIENCE AND ART. 
By John Gamgee, M.R.C.V.S. 
( Continued from p. 455.) 
On the Origin of the Cystic Worms , Sfc. By Professor 
Eschriciit.-— Researches on the Origin of the Cysto- cestoid 
Worms , made in the Royal Veterinary College of Copenhagen . 
By Professors Eschricht and Bendz. — Danische. 
Zeitschrift fiir Thierarzte, Vol. II, Nos. 2 and 3, 1854, 
also in the Repertorium der Thierheil ; Stuttgart, Jan. 
1854. 
On the Development of the Cysto-cestoid Worms in general , Sfc. 
By Professor Haubner, of Dresden. — Mag. fur dieges, 
Thierheil., Berlin, Nos. 2, 3, 1854, and No. 1, 1855. 
Notice of recent Researches on the Origin of the Entozoa ; more 
especially of Tape-Worms. By Allen Thompson, 
m.d., f.r.s. — London and Edinburgh, &c. ; Glas- 
gow Medical Journal, No. X, July, 1855. 
I purpose gleaning from the above, and other accidental 
sources, as I proceed, most of what interests veterinary sur- 
geons in the important subject of the origin, metamorphoses, 
and natural habits of hydatids and tapeworm — parasites 
which infect and kill so many of our domestic animals. The 
last five or six years have successfully crowned the labours 
of eminent zoologists who had till lately devoted themselves 
