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ON WORMS IN THE BRONCHI. 
By a Country Practitioner. 
Having had many cases of worms in the air-passages, and 
this being a nuisance very prevalent in this part of the country 
in the summer and autumn, and known by the name of Hoose or 
Husk , I have selected a few cases from my records of practice, 
if you think them worthy of insertion in your valuable Journal. 
Sept. 3d, 1840. — I was called to see seven calves that were 
affected with this disease. The owner had already lost five, al- 
though — as he said — he had tried every thing. The symptoms 
were, respiration hurried — staring coat — a dry husk — heaving of 
the flanks, with difficulty of moving, or unwillingness to move. 
They were reduced to perfect skeletons : two were then fast sink- 
ing. The treatment consisted of inserting setons in the dewlap, 
and blistering the lower part of the throat. Each had from half an 
ounce to an ounce and a half, according to their age, of a mixture 
once a-day, composed of sp. terebinth, six parts, tincture opii and 
balsam of sulphur, aa one part, with gentian and ginger, of each 
3j. Five soon recovered ; the other two died on the second day, 
after having taken two doses of the mixture. 
On examining the lungs, they appeared quite filled with these 
parasites, some of which, when washed and examined, were brown, 
and appeared dead ; the others were quite alive. I had a great 
many under treatment during the last autumn, and was very suc- 
cessful after I began to administer the turpentine ; but I never 
gave the tonic except in the case abovementioned, and when the 
patients were in such an exceedingly debilitated state. 
I have found the disease to follow the keeping of the animals 
upon a bare pasture, from the latter end of May to the beginning 
of August, and with a bad supply of water. Cows are sometimes 
affected. 
I know a farmer that poured half a tea-spoonful of oil of savine 
down each nostril, and with great success, holding the muzzle up 
for a little while after the oil had been administered. He informed 
me that he never had occasion to repeat the dose. 
I have to thank Mr. Morton and you for the account which 
you give of the effect of the spirit of turpentine in these and 
similar cases. In his “ Pharmacy,” page 278, is the following 
paragraph quoted from you: — “ From the rapidity and great ex- 
tent with which it is taken up by the absorbents and carried into 
the circulation, and the destructive effect which it is known to 
have on intestinal worms when otherwise brought into contact 
with them, the trial of its power would be justified in bronchitis, 
