Fig. 3. Administering an anthelmintic to a pig by means of the stomach tube 
From Young, 1923. 
THE STOMACH TUBE SEEMS SATISFACTORY 
One solution of the problem of administering anthelmintics to 
swine is the use of the stomach tube, and some practising veterinarians 
state that this is a feasible and satisfactory method of treating them. 
The writer finds that this method seems quite satisfactory and not un¬ 
duly wasteful of time if one considers the danger in the use of capsules 
and the waste of time and drugs and the uncertainty as to dose ad¬ 
ministered in drenching. A tube the size of a horse catheter may be 
used for animals of moderate and large size, the mouth being held 
open with a speculum or with loops. 
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, DOGS 
The administration of drenches to dogs seems to present little 
difficulty as a rule, but many veterinarians have difficulty in administer¬ 
ing capsules to dogs. The writer’s familiarity with dogs as a boy who 
always owned a dog and his subsequent experience in the treatment 
of hundreds of experiment dogs has led him to formulate certain 
opinions in regard to the method of giving capsules to these animals. 
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