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tantly, reeling or staggering in their walk, 

 frequently blinking their eyes, as feeling some 

 auk'.yard depression or uneasiness from the 

 effect of light ; thej^ are averse to handling, 

 and brough: out of the stable '\vith difficulty : 

 in time, a vi'sible tremor comes on, and after 

 reeling (or frequently turning round, if loo^se) 

 they fall almost lifeless to the ground, hav- 

 ing the perceptible power of breathing on\y, 

 but that in a des^ree of violence and aijita- 

 tion : this is termed the apoplexy, or stag- 

 gers, admitted synonimous and similar in 

 cause, symptoms, and effects. 



The great variety of symptoms that have 

 been hitherto worked up to a pitch of extra- 

 vagance, excited a degree of credulity to the 

 discrimination of these diseases, would ren- 

 der it a palpable burlesque upon the subject 

 to go over a similar ground ; they having in- 

 cluded and enumerated every possible symp- 

 tom (common to all distempers) in the de- 

 scription of this class, determined to include 

 the zclwk, that no one circumstance might be 

 wanting to justify their assertions, or con- 

 firm their judgment. Whether it is Epilepsy, 

 Palsy, Convulsions, or Stag-evil, symptoms 

 are amply furnished : we are repeatedly told 



