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VETERINARY LECTURES 



The bots, when seen in the stomach of the horse, are of a reddish- 

 brick colour and about J of an inch long, made up in segments or 

 rings with serrated borders, and are found in clusters varying in 

 number from eight to ten up to between two and -three hundred 

 (Fig. 5). The section of the stomach from which the photo was 



Fig. 5. — Bots in Horse's Stomach. 



1. Cuticular coat of stomach. 



2. Cluster of bots (total number 203). 



3 Orifices left in stomach where bots have fallen off. 



taken had 203 bots attached to its lining, and was taken from a 

 one-year-old cart colt, the animal having died from eating a large 

 quantity of sand and soil, which had collected in the large intestine, 

 the irritation of which induced inflammation of the feet (laminitis), 

 and finally death of the patient. The morbid appetite was no doubt 

 caused by the presence of such a large number of bots as were found 

 in the stomach. In the year 1797 Bracy Clark, a noted veterinary 



