. Fig. 57.* Fig. 58. Fig. 57 (after Thomas) represents a specimen which has arrived at one-third of its full growth. In front the oral sucker is seen, and behind it the ventral sucker. The shape of the fluke is here seen, the animal bcin^ magnified so as to be about seven-and-a-half times its real size. Fig. 58 (after Thomas) is magnified two diameters. It represents the diges- tive system. Y is the oral sucker, Y' the ventral sucker. In. the branched intestine. salt, well mixed with three-quarters of a pint of water, for three or four mornings when the afflicted animals arc fasting. The effic


. Fig. 57.* Fig. 58. Fig. 57 (after Thomas) represents a specimen which has arrived at one-third of its full growth. In front the oral sucker is seen, and behind it the ventral sucker. The shape of the fluke is here seen, the animal bcin^ magnified so as to be about seven-and-a-half times its real size. Fig. 58 (after Thomas) is magnified two diameters. It represents the diges- tive system. Y is the oral sucker, Y' the ventral sucker. In. the branched intestine. salt, well mixed with three-quarters of a pint of water, for three or four mornings when the afflicted animals arc fasting. The efficacy of this treatment was in one case exemplified by the fact that a sheep killed one week after this dose had been given was found to have 120 flukes, most of which were dead, in its liver. Again, it has been observed that sheep kept on salt-marshes are


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