5?o Of Curef Phyfical, Lib. I. 



warm Linnen Cloths, thruft it fair and Ibftiy up into his true Place , 

 that done, Bath all the Tuel with Red Wine, wherein hath been fod- 

 den Acatium, Galls, Acorn Cups, and the Paring of Quinces, then 

 throw upon it either the Powder of Bole-Armonick, or of Frankincence, 

 ox Sanguis Draconis, Myrrh, Acatium, or fuch like, and then give him 

 to drink the dry Pills of Pomegranates beaten to powder, either with 

 Wine or warm Water, and be fure to keep the Horfe very warm, and 

 in his Body neither too folu^le or loofe, nor too coftive or hard bounds 

 but of a mean and foft temper, for the extremity of either is hurtful. 



Chap. LXXX. Of the BotSy Trunchems^ and Worms in a Horfes Body^ 



MY Matters, the old ancient Farriers are of Opmion, that the Guts 

 of a Horfe do breed Three forts of Worms, that is to fay, little 

 ikorc W^orms with great red Heads, and long fmall white Tails, which 

 xve call Botts fhort and thick Worms all of a bignefs like a Man's Finger, 

 which we call Truncheons, and great long Worms as big as a Man's Fin- 

 ger, and at the leaft fix Inches in length, which we call by the fmiple 

 Name of Worms only. 

 ^O" Now in mine own Experience, and all other Mens, I find a fourth fort, 

 which is of a middle fize, and are Red and Fiery, with thick, iliort, 

 iliarp Heads, and are called Poifonous red Worms, and are of all other 

 moft Poifonous and Dangerous, for they will afcend up even to the Throat 

 of the Horfe, and will choak and kill him •, fometimes they will eat 

 through liis Stomach, and fo confound him. 



Now for mine own Fart I am of Opinion, That the firft which are 

 Bots, are not bred in the Guts, but the Stomach only, becaufe having 

 cut up many Horfes, I never could yet find any one Bot in the Guts, 

 yet great ftore of both the other Worms, nor ever cut up the Stomach 

 of a'^Horfe, but I found great abundance of Bots, and neither of the other 

 Worms • whence I am confidently opinionated, that Bots are ever bred 

 in the Stomach, and both the other forts of Worms in the Guts : Truth 

 it is, that all three doth proceed from one f:lf"-fime Caufe, which is a 

 raw, grofs, and Flegmetick Matter,apt to PLitiefaclion^and ingendredby 

 ibul and naughty Feeding, and as they proceed from one felf-fame Caule, 

 ib have they "^all one Sign, and all one Cure. The ligns are, the Horfe 

 will forfake his Meat, and not ftand 'ipon his Legs, but wallow and 

 tumble, and beat his Belly with his Feet, and fometimes the Pain will 

 be fo extream that he v/ill beat his Head againfl the Ground, ai:d truly, 

 the Violence of the Pved Worms are wonderful, for I have feen Horfes 

 whofe Stomach have been eaten quite through with them, fo that the 

 Meat which they eat could not abide in their Stoniach, but fell upon 

 the Swallowing into the Body, makhig the Body fwell like a Tun, and 

 fo died with huge Torment. Now the Cure according to the ancienteft 



Farriers 



