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Horfe or Colt has recovered his flrength and diforder, then it 

 will be proper to give him gentle mild phyfic, as it will caufe 

 a Colt to thrive well after it. I recommend the Hiera Picra 

 Spices, fee page 18. 



Seflion, 21. 



0/ BOTS and WORMS. 



1 Shall not pother the reader with this, that, and the other 

 fort of Worms. So far as this, I have feen three different 

 forts of Worms in the flomach and bowels of a Horfe when 

 dead. The Bots are a fliort thick trunch, much like unto a 

 large Maggot full of weapons, and appear in the fpring and 

 fummer time of the year to flick to the outfide of the funda- 

 ment, and feveral of them come off that way ; and there are 

 other forts of Worms which are called the red fmall Needle 

 Worms, and the great long Stomach Worms. I have feen a 

 Horfe convulfed from the effeft of Worms, to fuch a degree, 

 that the poor creature foon ended in death, and when dead, 

 the Bots were found to have eaten the ilomach quite through 

 in feveral places into holes ; at the fame time had galled the 

 infide of the flomach quite raw. And what is proper to de- 

 flroy the one, will deflroy all the other forts of Worms. 



When a Horfe has Worms, they will flick to the outfide of 

 the fundament, and there will appear a white matter or a 

 milky-like dry fubflance on the outfide of the fundament. — 

 When a Horfe has a fit from the effed of Worms, he will 



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