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 assafoetida, 30 grains.
To be given every morning, fasting. Two doses will generally suffice.
_Another._
Powdered mandrake, half a table-spoonful.
" 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.