142 The Farrier'j Ke^jj Guide. Ch. XXXIX. 

 CHAP. XXXIX. 



Of IForms-, BotSy and T rune h ions. 



Worms of di- 'T^ HERE are feveral Kinds of Vermin 

 €vers kinds bred A bj-ed in the Bodies ofHorfes, which go 

 in Horfes. under the Denomination of ^Bots^ JForms, 



and Trufichicns. The Worms are of divers Colours and 

 Shape ; fomerefemble Earthworms, others are Imall and 

 ■white, fnarp at both Ends like Needles. The Trimchlon i^ 

 thick and fliort, and the Bet is not unlike a fmall Catterpil- 

 lar ; the laftare commonly found in the llreight Gut, efpe- 

 cially of fome Horfes when they are firft taken from Grafs. 



SoUeyjcll has taken Notice of another Kind, which re- 

 femble Wood-lice, only that they have fewer Feet, are of a 

 deep reddifli Col -ur, velveted on the Back like a Bot, and 

 made up of feveral Folds. Thefe, he fays, are bred in the 

 Stomach, and abide in it, and devour all the Nouriihment ; 

 fo that a Horfe, if he be never fo great a Feeder, cannot 

 thrive while they are in his Maw. The fame Author ob- 

 ferves further, that thofe Kind of Worms are oftentimes 

 the Occafion of a Horfe's Death, by eating Holes in the 

 Stomach i and fays, he has feen Thoufands of them in the 

 Stomachs of dead Horfes. 



But that Author might be eafily impofed upon by fucli 

 an Infpcdion ; for it is very certain, as foon as an Animal 

 dies, thofe Parts that turn fiift to Putrefadion, as the Ali- 

 ment in the Stomach, which is kept under clofe Cover, 

 will foon breed Vermin, and that of different Kinds, fmce 

 it is reafonable enough to believe, that the Seeds of divers 

 Infeds may be depofited among the Food of moft Ani- 

 mals, and be thus convey'd into the Stomach, and may be 

 brought to Life very fuddenly after the Animal is dead ; 

 yy ur but that Worms, or any other Kind of Ver- 



A'o yyorms can . - , , , '' , r , m , ■ i 



be bred in the ^'"> ^^^ either be bred or fubliited m the 

 Stomach^Lvhile Stomach of any living Creature, is as im- 

 the Horfe is a- poffible as for a Moufe to live under a Mil- 

 live. ftone whilfl it is grinding; for it is very well 



known, that the mufcular Adion of the Sto- 

 mach, by which it is kept in conllant Motion, would much 

 fooner deflroy any fuch Creatures, if it was poflible for them 

 to breed there, than the common Food which they eat, that 

 being harder and more difficult to be broke than they. 



And 



