Identifier: ForeststreamXXVIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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should also be administered at leasttwelve hours before the vermifuge is given. Among the most valuable remedies for tapeworm infectionin the dog are areca nut, brayera or kooso, male fern,kameela, turpentine and chloroform. Areca nut is usuallygiven in doses of one dram, the nut being simply grated andthen made into a bolus with butter or lard. The dose of thedried brayera flowers (koosso) is two or three drams; it is givenin a cupful of warm water, in which the flowers may first beallowed to macerate for a quarter of an hour, Male fern maybe given in the form of the extract or oleoresin; the dose ofthe latter for a setter is ten or fifteen drops, given in gelatincapsules or well beaten up with a raw egg. Kameela is notas valuable as many other remedies; the dose of the powdereddrug is one-half or one dram for a greyhound or harrier.Chloroform is a most efficient, but somewhat dangerous,remedy; it should only be used when other drugs have failed. Joly 1, 1886.) FOREST AND STREAM. 483
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MASTIFF DOG BOSS The property of Mr. J. L. Winchell, Fair Haven, Vt. and under the immediate eye of a skilled veterinary surgeon.If the bowels do not move within three hours after the ad-ministration of any anthelmintic, a full dose of castor oil shouldbe given. The after treatment consists in the giving of only brothsand milk as food for a day or two; often tonic treatmentand careful attention to exercising anrl general health will berequired after the expulsion of tapeworms to bring the dog upto perfect health. Tapeworm infection is a disease of adult life, puppies butseldom having access to butchers offal or the like. They may,however, suffer extensively from the cucumerine species, andthe importance of having breeding bitches free from lice atonce suggests itself. The prevention of taenia infection has been treated of atlength when speaking of the different species. R. W. S. MASTIFF JUDGING. Editor Forest and Stream: I gladly exchange logic for a more congenial subject andreturn t

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