The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm StockBurkett, Charles William
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The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock
Burkett, Charles William
Veterinary medicine
As a farmer’s dose for the larger species of worms, none, perhaps, is
better than the following: Oil of turpentine, 2 ounces; extract or oil
of male fern, one half ounce, mixed with 4 ounces of castor oil and 8
ounces of pure raw linseed oil, with half a pint of new milk, and given
after the horse has fasted for about 14 hours. Repeat the dose in a
week; then follow with two worm powders, common smoking tobacco, eight
ounces; powdered worm seed, 6 ounces; powdered sulphate of iron, 4
ounces; mix with one-half pound each of salt and granulated sugar. Every
morning before the horse is fed any other food, place a heaping
tablespoonful of the powder in four quarts of wet wheat bran and allow
the horse to eat it; continue for ten days and the horse will be
practically rid of worms of the larger species. Colts should receive
smaller doses in proportion to age.
The small worms need the worm powder to be given in the wheat bran every
morning for fully two weeks. Then follow with an ounce dose of barbadoes
aloes and a tablespoonful of ginger given by mixing with about 12 ounces
of warm water and a gill of common molasses; wait a week and repeat the
powder treatment and follow with the aloes. In a case of the very small
or rectal worms (pin worms) always use rectal injections, a good enema
being made by steeping for two hours one pound of quassia chips in a
gallon of soft water; strain and add two ounces of common hard soap; use
the whole at once, using at about blood temperature after the soap has
dissolved. Repeat in three days and continue as long as worms are being
brought away by the enemas.
=INTESTINAL WORMS IN SHEEP.=--See Stomach and Intestinal Worms in Sheep.
=ITCH.=--See Scab in Cattle.
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