Chap. XXXIX. Of Jforms, &c: 143 



And therefore Markham's Affertion mud A falfe AJfer 

 be as falfe as ridiculous, and only taken upon ^'*^» °f Mark 

 Truft, from the Speech of fome Mounte- l^^n^*^- 

 bank ; where fpeaking of the Red Worms, he fays, " He 

 *' has feen Horfes whofe Stomachs have been eaten quite 

 " through with them, io that the Meat which they eat 

 *' could not abide in their Stomach, but fell, upon the 

 *' fwallowing, into the Body, making the Body fwell like 

 " a Tun, fo that they dy'd with huge Torment. 



Neither will the Hiflories we have of Worms being void- 

 ed at the Mouth of Men and Women, however authentick, 

 avail any thing to prove their fubfifting in the Stomach, 

 iinceit is very certain they have been thrown upwards, like 

 the Gall or Excrements in the Iliack Paflion, when the 

 Periflaltick Motion of the Guts has been very much inver- 

 ted ; and thefe have been but a very fhort while in the Sto- 

 mach before their Ejedment. 



We may therefore very reafonably affirm, All Worms bred 

 fmce the modern Difcoveries have fhewn '"« ^^^ <^«'-''» 

 us the true Ufe of the Stomach, that this Sort of Vermin 

 can only be bred and fubiifted in the Guts of any live Ani- 

 mal, and not in the Stomach ; and when they are found 

 there at any Time, it is either after the Animal is dead, that 

 the Action of the Stomach ceafes, or elfe they are brought 

 into it in the Manner we have already mentioned. 



Now the Caufe of Worms is from Foul <^^ ^ ^r. 

 Feeding, and very often from a bad Digef- Worms, 

 tion ; for that will have the fame ElFedt as 

 corrupt and unwholfome Food. For the Aliment, when 

 it is not fufficiently broke and comminuted in the Stomach, 

 turns to Crudities, and is render'd the more liable to putrifie 

 in the Guts ; fo that a proper Matter is Furnifhed for the 

 Production of Vermin : And therefore we may often ob- 

 ferve, that as Children, even fo young Horfes, are more 

 liable to be infelted with Worms, than thofe that are grown 

 to Maturity. And this may probably proceed from the 

 Weaknefs and Flexibility of the folid Parts, whereby, tho' 

 their Appetites are at that Time fenlible and vigorous, yet 

 the Stomach mult aft lefs forcibly upon the Aliment, than 

 when they are arrived to a more advanced State ; fo that of 

 Confcquence they may be render'd more liable to the Fro- 

 dudion of thofe Animals. 



The Signs are all thofe that appear in a qieS'mis 

 Cholick,for belides that thofe Infedts occaficn 



