NEMATODA IN NEW-BORN WHELPS. 
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the ponies being kept in stables in which the earth forms 
the floor. As there is no drainage, the earth becomes a 
complete puddle of mud, mixed with urine and feculent 
matter. These causes, associated with hard work, starving 
diet, crowded stabling, exposure to the sun, and a total 
absence of all hygienic rules, are, undoubtedly, sufficient 
to account for the disease of the eyes. In consequence 
of this persistent pathological state of the eyes, and the con¬ 
tinued annoyance to which they are subjected by flies, which 
exist in myriads in the hackney stables, and also from the 
effects of an ammoniated atmosphere greatly vitiated, as well 
as tropical exposure, a continued discharge from them takes 
place, which irritates and excoriates the skin over which 
it passes, leading to the part being rubbed by the horse, thus 
producing an abraded surface, in which state it becomes 
a fitting seat for future bursatic disease. Our hackney 
stables are as so many laboratories in which the active and 
virulent contagium of glanders is continually being manu¬ 
factured and kept spreading. Natives maintain that bursatie, 
to use their own words, is “ brother to farcy,” because 
bursatied subjects frequently die of farcy or glanders. 
NEMATODA IN NEW-BORN WHELPS. 
By the Same. 
In the October number of the Veterinarian (p.741) a unique 
case is recorded of taenia in a new-born infant. My object 
in directing attention to this case is for the purpose of stating 
that whelps born in India, especially during the rains, are so 
very liable to the attacks of nematode worms, and that, unless 
special care is taken to prevent their development in the 
stomach and bowels, the young animals are almost certain to 
die. Now, these entozoa can be derived from no other source 
than that of the milk of the mother, for most of the cases occur 
shortly after the pups gain their sight, or have received no 
other nutritive matter than that furnished by their dams. The 
first symptom shown by the affected animal is a continual cry¬ 
ing as from pain, stretching out all four legs and lying on the 
belly; presently colicy symptoms show themselves,and the ani¬ 
mal becomes much dejected and loses its appetite. These symp¬ 
toms are quickly succeeded by wasting, blanched membranes, 
and distension of the abdomen. The emaciation is often 
accompanied with convulsive fits, which soon lead to death. 
