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 . igestions. This last result is especiallyliable to occur in spring or eaily summer, when the bots are pass-ing out in great numbers, and hooking themselves at intervals tothe coats of the sensitive bowels in their course. They Avill some-times accumulate in such numbers
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 . igestions. This last result is especiallyliable to occur in spring or eaily summer, when the bots are pass-ing out in great numbers, and hooking themselves at intervals tothe coats of the sensitive bowels in their course. They Avill some-times accumulate in such numbers as actually to block the pas-sage. BOTS. 913 In discussing the subject, White says:— They are generally attached to the cuticular or insensible coatof the stomach; but sometimes clusters of them are found at thepylorus, and even in the beginning of the first intestine namedduodenum. In one case they ^vev(^ so numerous in this last situa-tion as to obstruct the passage completely, and cause the animalsdeath. Feron, an old writer, says Ir; has paid ]:)articular attention tothis subject, andhas found thatwhen in largequantities, they arevery destructive tohorses; that he hadseen several horseswhose stomachshad been pierced(pute through bythem, the bots mak-ing theii way intothe abdomen. James Clark, of Edinburgh, an au-. l<Ki. 800.—The gadfly, depositing eggs, withfull-grown bots. 1. The female fly about to deposit au egg; 2. The eggmagnified; 3. The bot; 4. The eggs magnified, attachedto a hair; 5. The newly hatched bot; 6. The bofc fullgrown; 7. The he:id of a bot magnified; S. The male fiy;9. The chrysalis. thor of high stand-ing, quoted in shoe-ing, relates a caseof a horses stomachbeing perforatedby bots. In Vol. II., page 73, Whites Farriery, Dr. White says:— I have seen several horses destroyed by these worms. Insome of them they caused inflammation of the lungs; in onephrenzy, or mad staggers; and in one horse, the pylorus was com-pletely plugged up with them. Th
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