CHAP. III.] OF IMITATION : REGIMEN. 411 



that contains grasses of an anthelmintic property, 

 and points out the propriety of continuing him on 

 the same food. 



A yellowish ordure appearing about the funda- 

 ment something like flour of sulphur, shows the 

 death of a good number of small worms (ascarides) 

 has been occasioned by some such natural means as 

 the preceding. Some worms come away as soon as 

 generated in the aliment, but if no other sign of 

 their existence is manifest, the solitary fact should 

 occasion no uneasiness. When botts, having been 

 detached by similar natural means, leave the sto- 

 mach — where they do not always cause inconveni- 

 ence, we find them adhering to the large intestines 

 and final gut, to which they adhere and cause the 

 animal to rub his breech against the wall or up- 

 right of the stall. Should those symptoms continue, 

 and the generating of worms remain unchecked, the 

 horse falls into profuse sweats on the least exertion, 

 and when these cease, he exhibits a weak and lan- 

 guishing condition, scarcely notices a brisk appli- 

 cation of the whip, his skin adheres to his ribs and 

 flanks — hide-bound has commenced. Cough, more 

 or less hectic according to his remaining strength, 

 accompanies the patient to his end ; for, as to a cure 

 being practicable when hide-bound arising from such 

 a cause has fairly laid hold of him, 'tis clean out of 

 the question. 



Regimen. — As the commencement of this dis- 

 order is mainly attributable to the coarseness of the 

 animal's food, and consequent incapacity of its large 



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