410 NATURAL REMEDIES, WORTHY [BOOK II. 



tions of the lungs, as well as of the liver, being of 

 long continuance, occasion partial roughness of the 

 hair, and slight hide-bound of the integuments 

 nearest the seat of disorder, that spreads progres- 

 sively all over. The cough which accompanies se- 

 vere attacks of the worms, diners from a cold in the 

 organs of respiration ; the first being more deep 

 and cavernous, leaving a shake or vibrating heave 

 of the flanks, whilst the former comes off with a 

 •wheeze, as if not fetched from so deep a recess. 



As the disorder proceeds, and the worms may 

 be supposed to extend their ravages, the patient's 

 appetite is subject to extreme variation ; he being 

 sometimes ravenous after food, at others not caring 

 to eat at all : which shows that the stomach is af- 

 fected, and is frequently succeeded by vertigo, or 

 staggers. A horse with worms that give him un- 

 easiness in the bowels will leave off eating some- 

 times for tw r o or three minutes, when a cavernous 

 rattle may be heard coming from his inside, and 

 he resumes his feeding. If he endeavours to kick 

 his belly, it has been construed by the worm ad- 

 vocates into the pain occasioned by worms gnawing 

 his bow r els ; but neither symptom is an invariable 

 indication of worms, for he does the same when 

 attacked by any other pain of the belly — whether 

 colic, tight girth, injury of the sheath, &c. When 

 the worms appear coming away spontaneously, 

 with successive stools, no matter of which kind, it 

 affords proof that the animal has taken grass or hay 



