26o WORMS. 



and predominant appearance of diftrefs. The 

 horfe is not only diftreffed with all the before- 

 mentioned proofs of bad ftate of body and in- 

 ternal decay, but likewife to violent periodical 

 pains, approaching to convulfions or feeming 

 madnefs; he difplays all the external fymptoms 

 oi gripes yjpafms in \S\zJiomach,Jlrangiiryy nay 

 even of a complicatio7i o'i dif order s\ but where 

 the evacuations of ftool and urine are not fup- 

 preffed, the original complaint may be attri- 

 buted to this caufe. 



Of all the various methods that have been 

 adopted in rational and regular practice (or the 

 experiments under adventurous fandion), none 

 Can lay fuch claim to approbation as that certain 

 and indubitable cure — a courfe of mercurial 

 phyfic. Antimoniah and preparations of tin 

 have had each their advocates, as v^'ell as thofe 

 botanical deceptives, ruey garlic^ tanf)\ Javiriy 

 and boXy all calculated to amufe, but none to 

 convince. Experience has determined the fpe- 

 cific efFefts oi mercurials in this cafe abfolutely 

 infallible; before the power of which every 

 fpecies of worms, and their oviparous re- 

 mains, indifcriminately fall, and are totally ex- 

 tirpated without admitting the fliadowof doubt. 



So 



