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infallible; before the power of which every 

 species of worms^ and their oviparous remains, 

 indiscriminately fall, and are totally extir- 

 pated without admitting the shadow of 

 doubt. 



So soon therefore as they are suspected, 

 or at least so soon as they are ascertained, 

 to have taken possession, it will be prudent 

 to prevent a horse being hurt in appetite, 

 reduced in flesh, or altered in condition (by 

 their constantly preying upon the internal 

 coat of the stomach, and injuring those mi- 

 nute passages through which the cliyle or 

 nutritive parts of the aliment is conveyed 

 into the circulation, for the general support 

 of the frame), to proceed upon some one of 

 the following courses without delay. 



Prepare your horse for the course of phy- 

 sic by the instructions given under that head, 

 page 35; and let your dose be adapted to 

 the strength, size, and condition of your 

 subject, by these rules ; if the horse is 

 thorough bred, and delicate in shape and 

 make. 



To the purging ball, No, J, add calomel one drachm. 



