All this agony and the deprivation, of a life depends on the parsimony of man. Women know that the body during certain times requires extra nutriment. Thus delicate ladies in peculiar states are accustomed to take "hearty pulls" at porter or at stout. It is very general for physiologists to argue from animals up to man. Why should not the custom be reversed? Why should not veterinary science reason from the human being down to the horse, and thereby instruct the stolid in the necessary requirements of the mare during particular states? "Stint the dam and starve the foal" is certainly a true proverb. Tænia is best destroyed by the spirits of turpentine in the following quantities:-- A foal Two drachms. Three months old Half an ounce. Six months One ounce. One year One ounce and a half. Two years Two ounces. Three years Three ounces. Four years and upwards Four ounces. Procure one pound of quassia chips. Pour into these three quarts of boiling water. Strain the liquor. Cause the turpentine to blend, by means of yolks of eggs, with so much of the quassia infusion as may be necessary. Add one scruple of powdered camphor to the full drink, and give every morning before allowing any food. This probably may kill the worms; but as every link of the tænia is a distinct animal of both sexes, and capable of producing itself, the eggs must be numerous. For the destruction of these, nourishing prepared food is essential, such as gruel, scalded oats, etc.; but little or no hay. At the same time a tonic will be of all service. Take Liquor arsenicalis From one to eight drachms. Muriated tincture of iron From one and a half to twelve drachms. Extract of belladonna From ten grains to two drachms. Ale or good stout Half a pint to a quart. Mix. Give every morning to the animal--strength being proportioned to age--till the coat is glossy. [Illustration: THE LUMBRICUS, A WORM NOT PECULIAR TO HORSES. ONE-FOURTH OF THE NATURAL SIZE. ] [Illustration: AN ASCARIDIS, NATURAL SIZE.] [Illustration: A STRONGULUS, NATURAL SIZE.] =Lumbrici= are more dreadful to contemplate than they appear to be fearful in reality; specimens are not rare which measure eighteen inches, This worm preys upon the weakly, be they old or young. One tænia will produce immense disturbance; whereas numbers of the lumbrici will cause little or no effect. Whoever has remarked the dunghill in a knacker's yard has seen it to consist quite as much of lumbrici as of excrement. Mr. Woodger, of Bishop's Road, Paddington, removes these pests with ease and certainty. The above-named veterinary surgeon gives two drachms of tartarized antimony with a sufficiency of common mass, as a ball, every morning, until the parasites are expelled. ASCARIDES AND STRONGULI.