This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... years ago I discovered that this worm was developed in small cells within the mucous coat of the ccecum, and when sufficiently developed, made its escape through a small opening in the centre of the cell. It produces considerable irritation, and a troublesome and often fatal diarrhoea is the consequence. Turpentine ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... years ago I discovered that this worm was developed in small cells within the mucous coat of the ccecum, and when sufficiently developed, made its escape through a small opening in the centre of the cell. It produces considerable irritation, and a troublesome and often fatal diarrhoea is the consequence. Turpentine and linseed oil are the best remedies, and bring away thousands, when the effect will cease: astringents do no good. flesh, and voracious appetite, betoken their presence. The teres is somewhat larger than in man, the ascaris darker. They occasion gripes and diarrhoea, but the mischief they produce is not great. The principal habitat of the ascaris is the coecum, although they are sometimes found in countless multitudes in the colon and rectum. Turpentine is a deadly poison for all these worms; but this medicine, so harmless in man, and in most of the lower animals, is apt in the dog to induce suffocation, particularly when given pure, or in large quantities. It should be mixed in small proportion with other oils, as linseed, or in a pill, or enclosed in a piece of gut, and with these precautions, it will be found at once safe and efficacious. In dogs, the teres is the most common, especially in puppies; the tasniae the most prejudicial. The ascaris likewise torments them. If left undisturbed, the two former often occasion fits, followed by emaciation and death. Iron filings, two drachms to a dose, are highly reputed as an anthelmintic for dogs; but we believe turpentine, or small doses of tartar emetic, to be more efficacious. Of the latter class, or those erroneously reputed to be true worms, are various species of the extraordinary hot, the larvae of the breeze or gad-fly. The (estride, comprehending the Gad or breeze flies, are not numerous ...
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