WORM S. 259 



Whatever doubts or opinions may have been 

 held, or gone forth, refpeding their origin or 

 different kinds, one opinion has been long uni- 

 verfal upon their eiFeds^ that is, where they 

 have taken poffeffion for any length of time, 

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

 cirty or attention, can give your horfe the ap- 

 pearance of hilarity, HEALTH, and CONDI- 

 TION. He is in perpetual anxiety for a con- 

 ftant fupply of either food or water, and in re- 

 turn but poorly repays the gratification 3 for, in 

 the midft of all, he feldom, or iiideed never^ 

 looks well; after having been fome time a prey 

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

 his coat flares, he always feems dejeded, fvveats 

 upon trifling exercife, and that fweat percepti- 

 bly unheakhy, and remarkably foul in effluvia. 



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 ftation is fuppofed (hitherto) 

 to be confined to i\\tJlo?}tacby when ftrong in 

 number and come to maturity, are fo fevere 

 in their operations that the great irritability of 

 the part occafions the mod excruciating pain 



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