VERMINOUS DISEASE AMONG FOWLS. 
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3. The liver of the turkey contained one large fluke, and the 
lower part of the intestine thirty-three worms, which perfectly 
obstructed the alimentary canal. Seventeen were scattered in the 
lower portion of the intestine. 
In order to satisfy Madame Brecy, I selected two fowls from 
among the rest, which I thought presented symptoms that indi¬ 
cated the existence of the worm. I killed and opened them, and 
found a collection of w'orms similar to the others. 
Case IV.—On the 28th of May 1823, T was sent for to a filly 
that was very ill. A very short time only elapsed before I was 
on the spot, but she had died, after strong convulsions. The 
owner wished to have her opened, which I did within an hour 
after her death. She was one year old, and very thin, although 
the herbage was abundant and of good quality. The stomach was 
about two-thirds filled with food, and contained numerous oestri. 
At a little less than a foot from the stomach was an enlargement 
equal in size to a man’s arm, and nearly six inches in length. It 
contained sixty-eight worms—strongyli—folded and matted toge¬ 
ther. They formed a ball as large as a goose’s egg, and obstructed 
the passage of the food. The mucous membrane of this portion of 
the intestine was thickened, reddened, and ulcerated. In following 
the course of the small intestines as far as the larger ones, I found 
many other masses, consisting of from ten to twenty of these 
worms rolled together, and some solitary ones were found. The 
larger intestines also contained a great quantity, mingled with the 
food. I likewise met with a very great number of the crinons, and of 
ascarides, in the arterial trunks and in the veins in the neighbour¬ 
hood of the heart: all these worms were, to a greater or less degree, 
in motion. The filly had been dead about an hour, but was not 
yet cold. There was no other lesion either of the thoracic or ab¬ 
dominal viscera. 
Case V.—June 24, 1828, M. Levailly requested me to exa¬ 
mine some fowls which were not in good health. His poultry- 
yard was occupied by almost every bird that was good and beau¬ 
tiful; but he annually lost a certain number through the influence 
of some disease which he could not understand, and in this year 
the destruction was far greater than at any former period. 
When I arrived at his house I found two fowls dead, which I 
immediately examined. They were very thin, but neither the 
crop, nor the gizzard, nor the liver, nor the lungs, exhibited the 
least trace of disease; there was, however, the fatal enlargement of 
tlie intestine, and in both of them the accumulation of worms. 
Other worms scattered through the lower part of the intestinal canal. 
iM. Levailly then went into the ]M)ultry-yard and selected two 
fowls that were evidently not in good health. They were killed 
