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the eye is, whether it be a strong or a 

 weak one. 



Many horses are attacked in their eyes 

 when coming five years old. This is vul- 

 garly called moon - blindness. It is a 

 periodical blindness, which comes and goes, 

 sometimes three or four times ; but, if it 

 ever comes above once, I imagine his eyes 

 to be in great danger. 



I have often read, in farriers' works, and i^^i^n^X'rs^e^; 

 in those of veterinary surgeons, of worms ^^°°'^*^' 

 in a horse's stomach : for my OAvn part, I 

 cannot credit it ; for the peristaltic motion 

 of the stomach is so powerful and the 

 heat so great, when the horse is alive, 

 that 1 am of opinion that worms may as 

 well live between two mill-stones, when at 

 work, or in a hot baker's oven, as in a 

 horse's stomach : and this I have a right to 

 say, that, w hen the motion of the stomach 

 ceases, which it does with the life of the 

 animal, in half a minute, worms may 

 move from their former quarters into the 

 stomach, particularly if the stomach be 

 replete with food. Certain we are, that no 

 person has ever seen the stomach of a horse 



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