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ENTOZOA. 
January 14th, 1859- This animal had been in training for 
some time up to this day, and at various periods medicines 
had been procured and given her, as she had at intervals 
shown symptoms of all not being well. She is now almost 
entirely off her feed ; but her appetite is very capricious, and 
upon the whole she is not doing satisfactorily. Her attendant 
at last having an idea she had “ worms/’ I was requested 
to see her. I found her a sad spectacle ; poor in the ex¬ 
treme, and consequently weak and emaciated ; dull in spirits, 
with a most anxious expression of the eyes, and, as her atten¬ 
dant justly observed, the “ bloom of her skin had faded”—it 
was gone, and the beautiful soft mellow state of the common 
integument, so well known to all familiar with what is termed 
condition , was lost; the skin being hard, dry, and harsh to 
the touch, and tightly adherent to the ribs; she has a 
most voracious appetite, but there is a continual wasting of 
body, with much uneasiness in the stable, and restlessness 
of position, and a desire to press the anus against the wall, 
where she would remain some time; she does not lie down 
regularly ; manifests great thirst; pulse 45 to 50, wiry and 
weak ; the mucous membranes pale and yellow ; the faeces 
soft and covered with mucus. 
Case 2.—On March 9th, 1859, my attention was directed 
to a black gelding, six years old, the property of Mr. 
M-, car-proprietor, of Cardiff, the ow r ner giving me 
the usual assurance in such cases, that his horse had 
“worms.” On visiting the patient, I found him, although 
at work , in a most pitiable state, looking a complete skeleton. 
My first inquiry was—Had any medicine been administered? 
I was told he had been attended several weeks, and “ lots ” 
of medicine given, but without any effect as regards the 
removal of the offending parasites. The animal was now in 
an emaciated, low condition, which rendered it necessary 
that something should be done for him, and that, too, 
speedily. On a more careful examination, I found the coat 
to be staring and thin; the skin harsh and dry to the touch, 
called “ hidebound;” therespiration quickened, and a most 
anxious and depressed expression of the eyes; the pulse 70, 
and characteristic of pain; the appetite voracious, with wasting 
away of the body, and intermittent colic, which was shown 
by frequent kicking the abdomen with the hind feet, but 
without those other violent symptoms so indicative of a case 
of well-defined or true colic. 
Cases such as these already cited I could easily multiply; 
all being of the same description, and exhibiting the like 
