. Pig. 23—Portion of Wall of Caecum of Horse showing tumors of different size due to Sclerostoma, as well as the parasites fastened to the mucus membrane. (After Railliet.) the intestine. Usually, however, these worms when lodged in the intestine do not appear to pro- duce any peculiar symptom by which we could de- tect them; but there is no doubt that when they are present in large numbers they must cause pain and probably inflammation and death. It is not the adult worm in the intestines which •sually produces much trouble, but the young im-

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