The cruel operation, expressed by the above name, used to be performed according to the copious directions of those who ought to have known better than to sanction with their authority a practice so disgustingly barbarous and unnecessary. It is now universally condemned by all respectable veterinary surgeons. There are still some educated people who request its performance, but for the credit of the profession such a monstrous request should be indignantly declined.

* This medicine is of course not to be given, if the dog is already suffering from mercurial salivation. The article on salivation should then be referred to.

† See Appendix.

"Worming" cannot cure a mischievous young dog of the bad habit of tearing to shreds such articles as gloves, dresses, bonnets, etc The dog seems to take a malicious pleasure in such acts of destruction, but the cure does not consist in worming. The pain which follows the operation no doubt causes the dog to desist, but in a few days, when the pain vanishes, the old tricks are resumed.

The assertion that worming is a preventive of rabies is so exquisitely absurd as to be its own refutation.