870 LUNG PARASITES IN A THREE-YEAR OLD OX. 
of the real Turkey, which is the article so much loved by the 
opium eater, who would do well to pause in his career of 
eating dirt, which he certainly does, in the -support of this 
vice. 
The use of opium as a medicine in the human school is w r ell 
known; it is no less appreciated by the veterinary practitioners. 
In Pereira's ‘ Materia Medica' we find as many as seventy-six 
pages devoted to the description of the opium poppy and its pre¬ 
parations; and in Tuson's ‘ Veterinary Pharmacopoeia' as many 
as eleven preparations are described. 
Time would fail us to enter into a discussion of the qualities 
of opium and its various preparations; but the following from 
Tuson will be sufficient to point out the importance of this drug 
as a remedial agent: 
“ Actions and Uses (internally).—In excessive doses, narcotic 
poison; in medicinal doses, stimulant, sedative, narcotic, anodyne, 
and antispasmodic. Given in gastritis, diarrhoea, dysentery, 
enteritis, colic, peritonitis, pleurisy, bronchitis, pneumonia, 
tetanus, rheumatism, and very many other maladies.” * 
The above list of serious maladies, in some of which opium is 
the practitioner's sheet-anchor, will serve for the present to point 
out the importance of the opium poppy. 
LUNG PARASITES IN A THREE-YEAR OLD OX. 
By A. E. Macgillivray, Y.S., Banff. 
A perusal of the Leader in last month's Veterinarian 
brings forcibly to my mind a rather peculiar and very inte¬ 
resting case recently occurring in my practice, which, as it 
fully bears out the truth of the remarks in the Leader, I 
intend recording in the Veterinarian . 
On the 8th of August last a gentleman called on me and 
produced a large piece of lung-tissue for my examination 
and opinion, as he had considerable doubt about the 
state of the beast from which it was taken. Being just 
about to leave home to meet a party at an appointed hour, I 
had only time to make a very cursory inspection, which had 
the following results, namely, lung-tissue not collapsed, 
but presenting a swollen appearance; found here and 
there much subpleural and interlobular effusion of yellow 
serum; found a grumous, mucous discharge from all the 
visible bronchi; found these bronchi congested; found on 
* Tuson's ‘Veterinary Pharmacopoeia,' p. 180. 
