The American Reformed Cattle Doctor / Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management

by George H. Dadd

WORMS.

Worms may proceed from various causes; but they are seldom found in healthy dogs. One of the principal causes is debility in the digestive organs.

Indications of Cure.—To tone up the stomach and other organs,—by which means the food is prevented from running into fermentation,—and administer vermifuges. The following are good examples:—

Oil of wormseed,	1 tea-spoonful.
Powdered assafœtida,	30 grains

To be given every morning, fasting. Two doses will generally suffice.

Another.

Powdered mandrake,	half a table-spoonful.
Powdered Virginia snakeroot,	1 tea-spoonful.

Divide into four doses, and give one every night, in honey.

Another.

Make an infusion of the sweet fern, (comptonea asplenifolia,) and give an occasional drink, followed by an injection of the same.

Another.

Powdered golden seal,	half a table-spoonful.
Common brown soap,	1 ounce.

Rub them well together in a mortar, and form the mass into pills about the size of a hazel-nut, and give one every night.

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