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Now, this Account feems to contradift and 

 thwart what I have before c.dvanced ; but if the 

 Reader will only confider that, as the Duodenum or 

 firft of the fmall Guts is fo near the Stomach, fo 

 foon as the Creature dies, and the Motion of that 

 Part ceafes, the Worms mount up thither, where 

 there is Plenty of Feeding, though before this, that 

 Habitation was too hot for them ; And indeed it is 

 rny Opinion, that when any Creature is near dying, 

 and that the Power of the Stomach is nearly de- 

 ftroyed, thefe voracious Reptiles make their Way 

 io^ and abide in the Stomach ; for I myfelf have 

 icen a young Horfe's Stomach eaten quite through 

 Vvith Worms, though opened only the Day after 

 he died, 

 ^-"li- It is agreed by all, and a received Axiom, that 



all Animo.ls are produced from Eggs, as all Plants are 

 Ironrig^s f'^^^ Seeds ; and thefe Ova or Eggs being fvvallowed 

 with the Food, and meeting with a proper Nidus 

 in the Inteftines or Guts of Animals, they are there 

 hc.tched or brought to Life. And young Horfes are 

 like young Children, more fubjedl to Worms than 

 full aged, or fuch as are ccm-e to their Prime ; by 

 reiifon, in the latter, the digeflive Faculty is fo 

 fiTOng that the very Ova themfelves are, as it were, 

 parboiled and deftroyed ; whereas in the firft, this 

 Faculty is fo cold and weak, as juft to produce a 

 proper V/armth to (well the Eggs as they pafs 

 tlirough the Stomach. Therefore when they get 

 into tlie Guts along with the Recrements of the 

 Food, they are fooner brought to Life j but whe- 

 ther they are bred in the Stomach, or Guts, it mat- 

 ters not, provided we know of a fafe and effetfhual 

 Vermifuge, which will deftroy fhem without doing 

 hurt to the Animal whofe Guts they are lodged in; 

 and of this I am pretty confident, to wit, that if the 

 following Methods and Medicines be ufcd, they 

 cannot fail of dellroying all the Species or Breed of 

 Worms. 



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