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Whatever doubts or opiniorxS may have been 

 held, or gone forth, refpeding their origin or 

 different kinds, one opinion has been long uni- 

 verfal upon their effefts ; that is, where they 

 have taken poffeffion for any length of time, 

 or in any great degree as to number, no care^ 

 arty or attentiony can give your horfe the 

 appearance of HILARITY, health, and con- 

 dition. He is in perpetual anxiety for a con- 

 ftant fupply of either food or water, and iii 

 return but poorly repays the gratification ; for, 

 in the midft of all, he feldom, or indeed ?2ever, 

 looks well j after having been fometime a prey 

 to them he gets low in flefh, hard in his hide, 

 his coat flares, he always feemsdeje<fled, fweats 

 upon trifling exercife, and that fweat percepti- 

 bly unhealthy, and remarkably foul in efHuvia. 



The fmaller kind of bots, and the asca- 

 RiDES, or fmall round worms, are attended in 

 general with no other fymptoms or inconveni- 

 ences than the laft defcribed ; on the contrary 

 the BOTS, whofe flation is fuppofed (hitherto, 

 to be confined to xhtftomachy v/hen flrong in 

 number and come to maturity, are fo fevere 

 in their operations that the great irritability of 

 the part occafions the mofl excruciating pain 

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