136 BOTS AND WORMS. 



Costiveness, Bound Bowels. 



This is usually a mere symptom of some other dis- 

 ease, upon the removal of which the costiveness dis- 

 appears. But sometimes, in consequence of dry food 

 deficient action of the liver, want of exercise, or a 

 paralytic condition of the digestive organs, it may re- 

 quire attention. 



TREATMENT. The animal should have regular ex- 

 ercise, green food or bran- mashes night and morn- 

 ing, with, but little oats, or other heating or dry food- 

 Give night and morning, fifteen drops of the SPECIF- 

 IC for INDIGESTION, J J, and the condition will soon 

 be corrected. 



Bots and Worms. 



Bots, in the horse, like worms in the human system 

 have usually a great many sins to answer for, which 

 are really chargeable elsewhere. It is a principle in 

 the economy of nature, that one animal should feed 

 upon or live within another, and hence every animal 

 and almost every organ also, has its peculiar parasite 

 or inhabitant. Such parasites are rarely injurious 

 In an unhealthy condition of the system, they ma) 

 unduly accumulate, and occasion some inconvenience 

 but they rarely feed upon the surface to which the} 

 are attached, but only upon the contents of the or 

 gans in which they exist. 



The history of the bot, the most formidable o 

 horse parasites, is as follows. Towards the close o: 

 autumn, the female gad-fly, (octrus equi,) fixes its 

 eggs upon the hair of the horse legs, by means of z 

 sticky substance, exuded with the egg. By means o; 



