WORMS. 151 



Description of the Bolts. 



CHAP. XXVIII 



OF WORMS. 



Worms, of every description, are common to 

 borses, viz. the botts, teretes, or round worms, 

 and the ascarides, 



Botts are bred in the stomach, and are fre- 

 quently the cause of convulsions : they appear 

 very large, and much resemble maggots. Those 

 of the stomach are commonly of a redder colour 

 than those which are found in the intestines or 

 the straight gut. Botts, in general, appear in the 

 months of May, June, or July, and are very 

 much like large maggots, or grubs, composed of 

 . circular rings, with sharp prickly feet along the 

 sides of their bellies, which appear to be of use 

 to fasten them to the part wliere they are bred. 

 From the muscular coat of the stomacli they suck 



