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WORMS. 



Worms produce a lai^e belly, voracious appetite, 

 hot foetid breath, a frequent looking towards the 

 fides, and fometimes a ftriking of them with the hin- 

 der foot ; but, more particularly, the horfe looks 

 unthrifty, his hair Hares, and is dry; and though 

 his belly may be large and hard, the reft of his 

 carcafs is lean. Bots are a (hort round worm, and 

 inhabit the ftomach ; and unlefs they exift in pro- 

 digious quantities, which is fometimes the cafe, they 

 do not often do fo much mifchief as is fuppofed. 

 There is a dark round worm, longer than bots, in- 

 habiting the large inteftines, and which are apt to do 

 more mifchief; there is likewife, but lefs frequently, 

 a long round worm, fimilar to thofe found in chil- 

 dren. Horfes are fubjedl likewife, now and then, 

 to the fmall afcaridcs, or thread-worm, which com- 

 monly confine themfelves to the redum, or laft gut, 

 and occafion an intolerable itching of the tail. 



Worms are known to exift not only by the fore- 

 going fymptoms, but likewife by the prefence of 

 a yellow matter at the anus, which horfes having 

 worms are feldom without. 



All worms are very difficult to deftroy. Bots can 

 hardly be killed, even out of the ftomach. Salt has 

 been faid to deftroy them ; or, rather, that horfes 

 who have had fait now and then fprinkled in their 

 food have never been troubled with them. The 



