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sects, when used without sufficient water ; also, 

 when either substance be swallowed, as often hap- 

 pens, without being properly masticated, through 

 the wearing away of the teeth, the tampers, &c. 

 Much pampering of the appetite, by dealers and 

 others, to produce fine coats by means of stimu- 

 lants, &c. as eggs 3 wine, ale, bread, diapente, lin- 

 seed ; when the effects thereof are worn away, these 

 leave the lacteals impaired, or offended at being de- 

 prived of a short-lived energy. The articles just 

 enumerated form indigestible crudities, that become 

 the appropriate nidus for generating worms in the 

 canal, so deprived of its natural functions by artifi- 

 cial means. Consult again what has been said in 

 the first book, see Index. Irregular feeding als.o 

 tends to the lodgement of crudities in the coecum, 

 or second stomach. 



Symptoms. — A staring coat, with emaciation and 

 weakness, were formerly deemed sufficient indica- 

 tions of the existence of worms to warrant the doc- 

 tor in pouring into the animal his monstrous mix- 

 tures ; for a worm case was esteemed by the old- 

 school-men like a little salary, pro tern. Those 

 symptoms, however, are at first rather the presage 

 than the concomitants of worms ; since they are 

 also symptomatic of several other internal diseases, 

 some of them producing worms in the sequel, 

 whilst other some are found still more rapidly de- 

 structive of life than worms are, and therefore de- 

 mand more immediate consideration. Slight affec- 



