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Title: The cat, a guide to the classification and varieties of cats and a short tratise upon their care, diseases, and treatment
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Huidekoper, Rush Shippen, 1854-1901
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ose of santonin^ aud in large cats five dropsof turpentine may be added to the oil. Tapeivorm (Tienia crassicolis). The whole of the feline tribe is a frequenthost of the tapeworm, of which it has a varietyof its own (Tcenia crassicoJis). The worm isfrom six to twenty-four inches in length. Ithas a large head, set on a narrow neck. Thehead is provided with a crown of from twenty-six to fifty-two hooks—frequently only thirty-four in numl)er. The body is made up of aseries of segments or rings, as can be seen inthe illustration (Figure 27). The tapeworm in-habits the small intestine of the cat, the headremaining fastened to the mucous membraneof the iutestine, wliile the body floats off in thesoft contents. The end of the tail, or variousportions of the body, break away from time totime, to be carried to the exterior to developinto fresh foci of infection. As the bodv l^reaks DISEASES OF CATS 119 away from the tail, it keeps growing from tliehead. In its vesicular form the tapeworm is
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Fig. -T.^NIA Crassicolis. found in the livers of rats and mice, which,when they are eaten by the cat, again infect 120 THE CAT it. The tapeworm, unless existing in quanti-ties, causes little irritation. What symptomsdo exist are those of intestinal irritation — occa-sional bloating or swelling up of the belly ofthe animal, and sometimes emaciation. Thediagnosis can only be accurately made by recog-nizing the segments of the worm which arecarried away with the faeces, and which appearas small oblong whitish masses, sometimessingle or sometimes connected together. The treatment consists of putting the catupon an al^solute diet for twenty-four hours;then give, according to the size of the animal,from ten to twenty grains of powdered arecaand two to four grains of santonin. This canreadily be given in a saucer of milk, which theanimal willingly swallows, having l)een starvedfor a day. The powder is to be followed intwo hours by a full dose of castor-oil, to whicha few drops of turpentin

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