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We have, roughly speaking, two kinds of worms to treat in the dog: the round, and the tape. Round-worms They are in shape and size not unlike the garden worm, but harder, pale, and pointed.
The common parasitic diseases of domestic animals are caused by the following groups of worms: Flukes or trematoides; tapeworms or Cestoides; thorn-headed worms or Acanthocephales; and round-worms or Nematoids. Flat worms, such as tapeworms and flukes, require secondary hosts.
The different species of poultry are hosts for many different species of round-worms, thorn-headed worms and tapeworms. Dr. Kaupp states that Acaris inflexa or large round-worm, Heterakis pipilosa or small round-worm, and the Spiroptera hamulosa or gizzard-worm are frequently found in fowls.
The number of ascarides or round-worms in one subject is sometimes enormous. Victor speaks of 129 round-worms being discharged from a child in the short space of five days. Pole mentions the expulsion of 441 lumbricoid worms in thirty-four days, and Fauconneau-Dufresne has reported a most remarkable case in which 5000 ascarides were discharged in less than three years, mostly by vomiting.
INTESTINAL WORMS OF SOLIPEDS. The large round-worms or ascarides and the sclerostomes are the most injurious intestinal parasites of solipeds. It may be present in the double colon in such large numbers as to form an entangled mass that completely fills a portion of the loop in which it is lodged.
Mitra speaks of the passage of round-worms through the umbilicus of an adult; and there is a case mentioned in which round-worms about seven inches long were voided from the navel of a young child. Borgeois speaks of a lumbricoid worm found in the biliary passages, and another in the air passages. Turnbull has recorded two cases of perforation of the tympanic membrane from lumbricoides.
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