. Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ... wine-glassful of aromatic spirits of ammonia given in i pint of cold waterevery five or six hours, and followed up by an occasional dose of rawlinseed oil. The post-mortem in cases of vegetable poisoning revealsthe lining of the stomach to be much paler than normal, without anysigns of inflammation, unless the plants are of an acrid nature, whencongestive inflammatory patches are seen. Further reference is madeto vegetable poisoning in par. 303. 251. Bots [Plate XL., Nos. 7, 8, and 9) are the
. Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ... wine-glassful of aromatic spirits of ammonia given in i pint of cold waterevery five or six hours, and followed up by an occasional dose of rawlinseed oil. The post-mortem in cases of vegetable poisoning revealsthe lining of the stomach to be much paler than normal, without anysigns of inflammation, unless the plants are of an acrid nature, whencongestive inflammatory patches are seen. Further reference is madeto vegetable poisoning in par. 303. 251. Bots [Plate XL., Nos. 7, 8, and 9) are the larvae or grubs ofa species of the gad-fly, the Gastrophilus of the horse [CEstnts equii),of the order Diptera, or two-winged insect, the breeze or horse bot. 152 VETERINARY LECTURES The bots, when seen in the stomach of the horse, are of a reddish-brick colour and about | of an inch long, made up in segments orrings with serrated borders, and are found in clusters varying innumber from eight to ten up to between two and -three hundred{Fig. 5). The section of the stomach from which the photo was. Fig. 5.—Bots in Houses Stomach. 1. Cuticular coat of stomach. 2. Cluster of bots (total number 203). 3 Orifices left in stomach where bots have fallen off. taken had 203 bots attached to its lining, and was taken from aone-year-old cart colt, the animal having died from eating a largequantity of sand and soil, which had collected in the large intestine,the irritation of which induced inflammation of the feet {laminitis),and finally death of the patient. The morbid appetite was no doubtcaused by the presence of such a large number of bots as were foundin the stomach. In the year 1797 Bracy Clark, a noted veterinary THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS 153 surgeon, gave a splendid account of the life-history of the Q£stmsequii, or horse hot, which differs very little from what is knownto-day. The perfect female insect resembles, both in size and colour,the humble-bee, with the exception that it has o
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