WORMS. 2SS 



treated en, we of courfe come to fuch as (from 

 their frequent occurrence) rank in equal efti- 

 mation. 



WORMS, 



m 



What inveterate obftacles thefe infeds are 

 to a horfe's improvement, where they have un- 

 luckily gained poffeffion, time and expermice 

 have fufficiently demonftrated. They are of 

 fo pernicious and deftrudlive a tendency that, 

 having once fecured a fettlement in either fto- 

 mach or inteftines, the horfe becomes a prey 

 to perpetual depredation till effedual methods 

 are taken for their total extirpation. The 

 worms with which horfes are fo frequently 

 perfecuted, are, to appearance, of many diffe- 

 rent forts and (hapes; but the kinds moft ge- 

 nerally known and obferved are the two dif- 

 tindt kind of bots and the ascarides or 

 fmall fhort worm. 



The different bots are remarkable for taking 

 their feats as oppofite to each other in the ani- 

 mal as they are in their own formation ; for 



the 



