And I am dreading that if Wayland Smith be gone, the bots will have more power over horse and cattle.
Unless destroyed by treatment, the bots in the stomach of the horse pass out in the manure in the spring and burrow down into the soil an inch or two.
These eggs or the young maggots escaping from them are ingested by the horse in licking the portions irritated by the movement of the escaping maggots, and when swallowed develop to form bots in the stomach.
Reaumur's Memoirs, represents the bots of which we speak.
Each of these bots has in its interior a cavity, occupied by a larva, which, as well as the bot, increases in size as the larva becomes developed.
Reaumur took between sixty and seventy botsfrom one of them, and even then some had escaped.
The bots remain under the skin through the whole winter, and grow to the size of an acorn.
Perhaps you are not aware that thebots we are speaking of, or rather those in the head of goats, have been prescribed as a remedy for the epilepsy, and that from the tripod of Delphos.
It thus appears that bots ordinarily pass about eight months of their lifetime in the digestive organs of the horse.
After the bots have attained perfect growth they voluntarily loosen their hold, and allow themselves to be carried along the alimentary canal until they escape with the fæces.
Idem, ‘An Essay on the Bots of Horses and other Animals,’ London, 1815.
On the Occurrence of Bots in the Human Subject,” ‘Edin.
To Mr Spooner Hart, of Calcutta, I am indebted for a large number of specimens; their size exceeding that of any other bots that have come under my notice.
Mr Charles Danford presented me with several bots from an ibex.
In the paper (quoted below) Murie appends a list of all the animals in which bots have been found.
Hope’s list records five cases of bots of Œstrus hominus, one of Œ.
Repeat the above treatment in a week or ten days to insure the expulsion of Bots that might have escaped the first treatment.
Old Botsis pawing the earth and snorting his eagerness to help out.
After that, wherever he went abroad, and he travelled all over the countryside, he rode in the cart, steering Old Bots this way and that with much shouting, prodding and jerking of reins.
For the cuticular bots having no plane surface to move upon, and imbibing a liquid food, in them the mandibular hooks would be superfluous.
Faith, I ha' been in a fair taking for you, a bots on you!
A bots on't, I cannot hit of these marrying terms yet.
They shall all do if Bots sets upon them once: she was as if she had professed the trade, squeamish at first; at last I showed her this jewel, said a knight sent it her.
A very honest woman, as I'm a soldier--a pox Bots ye.
I'll cheapen wares of the man, whilstBots is doing with his wife.
I have known some kill'd on the Salts in January, that have had abundance of Bots in their Throat, which keep them very poor.
At one time of the Year, great Bots or Maggots breed betwixt the Skin and the Flesh of these Creatures.
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