The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . PARASITES OF ANIMALS. Trichina. 409 Treatment.—The treatment recommended is, to place theanimal in a cool, clean, well ventilated stye, with plenty offresh water for him to drink and bathe in. For a medicine, No. 454. Flour of sulphur, J oz. Nitrate of potash, 1 draclim. Give in a bran mash, twice a day. His skin should be cleaned with soap and water, and thesores dressed with tar ointment. IBICHINOSIS. The Trichina spiralis is a minute parasite that infests theflesh of several animals, especially the hog; and as it is verytenacio
The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . PARASITES OF ANIMALS. Trichina. 409 Treatment.—The treatment recommended is, to place theanimal in a cool, clean, well ventilated stye, with plenty offresh water for him to drink and bathe in. For a medicine, No. 454. Flour of sulphur, J oz. Nitrate of potash, 1 draclim. Give in a bran mash, twice a day. His skin should be cleaned with soap and water, and thesores dressed with tar ointment. IBICHINOSIS. The Trichina spiralis is a minute parasite that infests theflesh of several animals, especially the hog; and as it is verytenacious of life, it is, from eating pork, occasionally trans-ferred to man, in whom it produces serious and sometimesfatal illness. The trichina is said to be not uncommon in Americanpork, and in several European markets our exportations ofthis staple have met with less favor on this account; but thefacts are that German pork is quite as much infected as ourown. The trichina is believed to inhabit the body of animals atall stages of its existence; and hence swin
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