This section is from the book "Everything About The Dogs", by Alvin George Eberhart. Also available from Amazon: Everything About Dogs.
A silly idea that may still exist in some isolated nook or muddled brain, that a dog has a worm under its tongue, the removal of which is called "worming,!' and which is supposed by idiots to do great good, such as to prevent the dog from biting, should he ever become mad? Operation consisted in cutting the bridle of the tongue and pulling out a small ligament, which contracts and curls up like a worm. Anyone so ignorant should have the same operation performed on their own tongue, to see how cruel, ridiculous and uncalled for is such an idea. Equally as silly is a similar operation as to removing a worm from the tail of a dog.
 
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