i?iR Wormt! 



M^ft^^l^RAcks •Clarke^ of Loidon, in a most ingenious paper of his, 

 pfe'blished 5n the 5th Volume of the transactions of the Linnosan 

 Sbciety; 



^ The origin and mode of propagation of the three first, (which in 

 strict pr^priety oflanguage can alone be called Worms) are involved 

 in such great obscurity;, that neither writers on Natural History, nor 

 Medical Philosophers, have been able to investigate satisfactorily, all. 

 the Phoenomena connected with them; but Mr Clarke's indefatigable 

 diligence, joined to enlarged and Philosophical views, has enabled 

 him to trace most clearly, the Natural History and origin of the Bot, 

 And by this investigation Mr Clarke has rrotonly. completely removed 

 the veil which had hung over this mysterious subject forages, but; 

 has at the same time conferred a dignity upon the Art which he pro- 

 fesses, and an honor upon the Veterinary School of England. For 

 such enlarged and scientific investigations of Nature, must inevitably 

 stimulate the indu^ry and exertions of other Veterinarians, and 

 thus not merely tend, to rabe tlie importance of our Art, in the esti- 

 mation of the liberal-minded; but at the same time contribute most 

 essentially, to the advancement of general Science. 



The morbid appearances in the constitution, which are exibited in 

 .consequence of the presence of thfe Round Worm and Tape W^orm, 

 in the bowels of the Horse, have been by no means accurately ob- 

 served or defined, by Veterinary Writers. 



The Tape Worm is in fact so very rarely seen, that, but for the, 



circumstance of the possibility of its being met with, it would 

 scarcely deserve to be noticed, as an enemy to the Horse. The Teres 

 which has the form^ though not the colour^ of the Earth Worm^ 



