This section is from the "The Indian Household Medicine Guide" book, by J. I. Lighthall. Also available from Amazon: The Indian Household Medicine Guide
I need not tell how the bot-worm gets in a horse's stomach, for every one knows, but I will give you a sure cure if given in time. As soon as a horse's stomach becomes deranged, and the gastric juice not in its normal or natural condition, the worm at once fastens its horns in the walls of the stomach and commences to eat its way out, and in bad cases, upon opening the horse's stomach, you will find the worms in regimental rows stuck as fast to the walls of the stomach as a fish hook in flesh. Now there is common sense in all things. I will now tell you how to overcome the deadly worm. Take a quart of sweet milk and a pint of molasses, and two ounces of laudanum. Mix together and give it blood warm. The worms will let go and drink the sweet drink, and the laudanum will make them all dead drunk in one-half hour. Then give six ounces of aloes dissolved in half gallon of warm water, and while the worms are all drunk they will be carried off through the bowels, and the horse will get well.
 
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