The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . r-tery, in an abscess in the substance of the abdominal muscles, andaccording to Lafosse, they have been fouud also in the pancreaticand salivary ducts. There are but three oi- fourthat are very common. First,the teres Iwmhrici, a large wormfrom four to ten inches long,
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . r-tery, in an abscess in the substance of the abdominal muscles, andaccording to Lafosse, they have been fouud also in the pancreaticand salivary ducts. There are but three oi- fourthat are very common. First,the teres Iwmhrici, a large wormfrom four to ten inches long,that lives in the intestines. Itlooks like the common earth-worm, yellowish white and ta-pered at both ends. Second, theascaris or ascarides, commonlycalled needle or thread-worm, ofa dirty-white color, usually from ^^«- !92.—The appearance of a horseone to two inches long. They ^^^ °^^^ ^ • are sometimes found in thousands. They have been observed chieflyinhabiting the mucous coat of the coecum, on the surface of which,it is supposed, they are developed in little cells, which, when ma-tured, burst, producing considerable irritation, and often seriousinflammation of the parts. They are also sometimes found to in-fest the rectum in large numbers, and to relieve the irritation theyproduce, the horse rubbing his taiL. WOEMS. 907 Varieties of strongyli and oxyuresalso occur, and are sometimes mis-taken for ascaris. They are, how-ever, distinct species; the former istapered, and terminates in a spine,whereas the latter is blunted, with ahead like a leather sucker. Thestrongyli inhabit the ccecum, colon,and duodenum; the oxyures, the mes-entery, spermatic cord, and in factalmost every organ in the body. Thecommon whip-worm, or long thread-worm, technically called the tricho-cephalus dlspary are found in the cce-cum. They resemble a whip, theshank being about a third, and thethong two thirds of the length, usuallyabout two inches. Bots, which in-habit the stomach, will be referr
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