Symptoms Of Tape Worm

An irregular and frequently a ravenous appetite co-existing with considerable emaciation, the food taken seeming to do the dog no good. The breath is offensive, and nose hot and dry. The coat has a rough, harsh, staring, unhealthy look, the hair looking dead. I have, however, found tape worms in a pug dog that had a sleek and glossy coat and was fat and healthy. They often have a depraved appetite, looking for and eating filth. Parts of the worm may sometimes be seen hanging from the anus of the dog, this being the case in the pug spoken of, and who had never shown any signs of having such trouble, as she was a bitch that had had several litters of pups.

I prefer mixing it in molasses, as this is sweet and also a physic. It should work him in from half an hour to an hour, but sometimes takes longer.

Another way to give it is by mixing the powder in castor or olive oil, the way it is given by doctors in treating human beings for tape worm.

Now, arrange to have it so you can examine the passages by dog being confined in a yard. Be there yourself till it has worked the dog, don't give it up and go away, for this catching tape worms is not easy fishing, and you must give it your attention. Examine each stool and carefully pick out the part of worm it may contain, wash this off and put it on a sheet of paper so you can examine it and see what luck you had in that haul, or if you got the head that time. You can buy at a small cost a magnifying glass, as the head cannot be seen with the naked eye. As soon as medicine is through working, feed up your dog, for he will relish a good meal. If you find the head, then I would let the dog go for a week before you give him another dose, but if you have not found the head then repeat dose in two or three days.

In tape worm cases the treatment must be repeated and persevered with until the head of the worm is expelled, and in all cases the worms and all discharged feces should be either burned or destroyed by mixing it with some powerful disinfectant and then buried, to prevent propagation of the parasites by their ova.

You may get one worm or more, and yet the dog may have more tape worms, which treat for later on if symptoms again appear. Here is another prescription which is recommended by Dalziel:

Treatment For Tape Worm

I will now.divulge the secret of the remedy that I have sold for years under the name of "Eberhart's Tape Worm Remedy," and which has never failed and never will fail to remove tape worms, head and all, if directions are followed. Kamala is the article. It is a product of India, a fine granular powder of a reddish, brown color, obtained from the minute glands adhering to the capsules of Rottlera tinctoria.

Some ten years ago my pug "Boycott" was afflicted with tape worm, not only one but several (as is sometimes the case), and I tried every known remedy and each case failed to rid him of the worms, besides nearly ruining the dog. I paid one tape worm doctor (who treated people) ten dollars to work on my dog one entire day, and he fa'ied to get the head of the worm, and the poor dog was sick for many days afterward, due to the severe ordeal and treatment. I then discovered "Kamala," which had been used for human beings, and in less than a week I had removed three tape worms (including heads) aggregating eighty feet in length.

Kamala is entirely harmless, never causing irritation or inflammation, and unlike other remedies, its use does not leave the patient in a weakened condition, but exactly the reverse in this respect - the clog feeling better, is braced up, acts happy and better than before taking it. So harmless do I know it to be, that many times I have given it as an ordinary physic when I did not have castor oil on hand. It is the greatest tape worm remedy ever used and I now give up the secret purely for the good of dogs, as I have sold it for years and am receiving orders for it almost daily, it having been a profitable part of my business.

It is also a very good remedy for removing round worms. Being a comparatively new remedy at this writing, not all druggists keep it, and especially in smaller towns, and if your druggist has not got it send to me and I can mail it to you, as my druggist in Cincinnati keeps it in stock, and always fresh, which is highly important, as it must be fresh and kept in a tightly corked bottle. For Fifty Cents I can send it by mail - enough usually for any dog. This one remedy alone is worth the cost of a good many copies of this book.

Never use areca nut, the relict of a past age, which has for so long a time been used for tape worm, and has killed more dogs than it ever cured, a deadly and dangerous remedy.

How To Use Kamala

Fast your dog for twenty-four hours (a day and a night) and then in the morning give him the dose. A strong and mature dog should be kept without food for twenty-four hours, weakly dogs and puppies, a less period, but sufficient to empty the stomach, for it is no use giving vermifuge on a full stomach, except to young puppies, of course.

Weigh your dog and if he is ordinarily strong and healthy, the size dose to give is two grains for each pound the dog weighs. If the dog is not in usual health or is a weakly sort, try it first - one and a half grains to each pound. Kamala is tasteless, and unless the dog gets the idea you are "giving him medicine" it is easily administered as follows: I give it mixed in molasses and then put it in his mouth, rubbing whatever is left on your finger, on his nose and he will lick it off himself.

In using Kamala, should you give an overdose, no harm will result from it, as it is not a drug. An even teaspoonful of Kamala is sixty grains, and taking this as a guide, you can come near enough to the proper dose for any dog, if you have the dog's weight, as for instance, if your dog weighed sixty pounds, then the dose would be two teaspoonfuls, and you can get at it this way, or a better plan is to get your druggist to weigh it out into proper sized doses, telling him weight of dog and that the dose is two grains to each pound dog weighs.

You may find difficulty in getting Kamala, many druggists not keeping it, and some of them even not knowing as to it, and if you cannot obtain it of your druggist, I can send it to you by mail, two hundred and forty grains for fifty cents. It must be fresh, and what you do not use must be kept in a tight glass stoppered bottle to retain its virtues for future use. Kamala is the greatest tape worm remedy of all. I am satisfied and sure that it is, and since I first made it public in my second edition of this book, several makers of worm remedies are using it in their worm preparations. One regular physician in Mississippi who had practiced medicine for forty years, and who bred hounds, not knowing of Kamala, ordered it, and later wrote me that from one dog he got eighty-two feet of tape worm, and that he should adopt and use Kamala hereafter in his practice on humans.

Dalziel Says Of Tape Worms

"These are, as the name indicates, the flat worms which are often seen evacuated with the feces in small sections of half an inch or less, when they are usually called 'maw-worms;' or at times chains of them may be seen hanging from the anus, when being expelled naturally or under the action of medicine.

"No less than a dozen tapeworms select the dog as their host. They have a remarkable life-history, and It is as well for the dog owner to know something as to this, as he is often puzzled to think how this or that dog became infested.

"It will therefore be well to see how an adult tape worm is made up. If examined, it will be found to consist of a head, or scolex, and a series of segments, scientifically known as metameres. These latter are constantly being budded off from the head, and assume forms varying with their age. Thus those nearest the head are the youngest, and those at the other extremity the oldest. It is these last which one sees from time to time pass with the faecal discharges. They are, in fact, the ripe segments, or proglottids, which detach themselves from the hind portion, and each portion thus freed Is endowed with reproductive organs. In time these detached portions die away, but the eggs contained In them have been impregnated by spermatozoa and simply await another host to begin anew the cycle of existence. The eggs thus scattered broadcast are not influ-•enced by extremes of heat or cold, dryness or moisture, nor does time seem to destroy their germinating power. From this it will readily be seen how important it is to burn all excreta from dogs infested with tape worms. When the ripe segments leave the dog per anus they are charged with ova, and possessing the power of motion, wriggle among the hair, where the lice and fleas devour the eggs and develop into the cryptocysts found by Grassi free in the abdominal cavity. The dog again, in searching for his tormentors, nibbles and licks his skin and coat, and in this way swallows the insect, and when the contained cryptocyst is set free in the dog's stomach the tapeworm is once more developed. The nimble flea travels so readily from one dog to another, carrying this tape worm with him, that we have here an explanation of what has puzzled so many - how a carefully fed and groomed house dog becomes infested with tape worm?"