45^ ON WORMS. 



glyflers alFo may be ufed. This method is very 

 fuitable for draucrht horfes. 



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According to the old farriers, there are four 

 different fpecies of worm generated in the body 

 of a horfe. '•' Little fhort worms, with great 

 *' red heads, and long fmall white tails, called 

 " BOTTS. Short thick worms with black hard 

 *' heads, all of a bignefs, like a man's finger, 

 " called TRUNCHEONS. Worms from fix to 

 " eighteen inches in length, and as thick as a 

 " man's finger, which are, the rotundi, or 

 " EARTHWORMS ; and red maw-worms, re- 

 " fembling wood-lice, but with fewer feet, 

 having thick, flioit, fharp heads, velveted on 

 the back like a bat, and made up of feveral 

 folds." Thefe laft, it is afTerted, will perforate 

 the flomach of a horfe, and kill him : but it is 

 not yet determined, I believe, whether worms 

 can really exift in the ftomach of a livins^ 

 animal'; that they are found there after death, 

 every one knows, but Bracken thinks it pro- 

 bable they make their way thither from the 

 duodenum, after the vital funftions have ceafed. 





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