The inspection of meats for animal parasites / prepared under the direction of D.E. Salmon.

Date:
1898
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    Treatment.]—The first thing to do in treating sheep and cattle for tapeworms is to confine the animals in a comparatively small yard and to withhold solid food the night before dosing. The animals should be kept confined until the worms are passed, then all the faeces should be collected and burned, or buried in quicklime. Schwalenberg reported good results with kamala, dose for a lamb 3.75 grams (about 1 dram); also with cusso (kousso), dose for a lamb 7.5 grams (nearly 2 drams); still better results with kosin (koussin), dose for a lamb 12 centigrams. Picric acid, dose 0.6 to 1.25 grams (10 to 20 grains), made into pills with meal and water, is recommended by some authors. It should be followed with a cathar- tic (a 4-ounce dose of Epsom salts or a 4-ounce dose of any of the bland oils). Two-ounce dose of powdered male fern root, or, still better, the ethereal oil of male fern in dram doses, is recommended by some veterinarians. It can be given in combination with 2 to 4 ounces of castor oil. ■ Frohner (1889) gives the following recipes: Take koussin, 3 grains, and of sugar 10 grains, mix, and give at one dose. The dose of tansy is from 2 to 6 drams. It forms one of the chief ingre- dients of Spinola’s worm cake, which is fed to lambs as a pre- ventive against worms. The recipe, sufficient for 100 sheep, is as follows: Take of tansy, calamus root, and tar, each 2£ pounds; of cooking salt, II pounds; mix these with water and meal, make into cakes, and dry. This is an old and oft-repeated recipe, but /•$*§£ I can not Avouch for its efficiency. (Curtice, 1890.) Powdered areca uut may be given to lambs in doses of 1 to 3 drams. If no passage occurs, follow in three or four hours with a cathartic. In the recent experiments with bluestone by Hutcheon, in South Africa, against wire worm disease in sheep, ithas been found that the same treatment expels tapeworms. Caution.—Repeated accidents have happened from using too strong a solution or too large doses, or in giving it in such a way that the medicine gains access to the lungs. Dr. Hutcheon’s method of procedure, which is here given in detail, is safe in the hands of the average farmer if the directions are followed. The person who gives stronger doses than indicated, or who is careless about the measurements, must take the en- tire responsibility of the miscarriage of the treatment. It is a good plan to make up a smaller quantity of the solution and try it upon a few sheep before attempting to dose the entire flock. pSSSi pH tegs jigi m Fig. 122.—Adult specimen of the Fringed Tape- worm (Thysano- soma actinioides). (After Stiles, 1893, PI. XI, fig. 1.) See p. 128. ’In this connection consult Curtice, 1890, pp. 120-121.