312 STAGGERS, &c. 



** of tliofe arteries which are fituated near the 

 " optic nerve, which, by preffing upon the 

 *^ brain, will caufe a fhaking in that nerve. 



'* Now (fays he) if we examine a little care- 

 ** fully into all the different appearances of 

 *^ that dillemper which farriers call ihejiaggersy 

 *^ we fhall find them reducible to one of : 



** thefe maladies above defcribed.'* He then ; 



proceeds to prove that the flaggers may be i 



the ^jitOi of either 3 then mentions an attack ', 

 when the horfe is firit turned to grafs, after I 

 a day or two's full feeding, and defines that ; 

 apopledlic -, and a fourth, that is, *^ either 

 *' a true apoplexy, or a vertigo, or perhaps 

 " both.'' I omit enlarging here upon thefe 

 palpable abfurdities and diredl contradidlions, 

 quoting them to demonftrate the inconfiftency j 

 of following him through all thefe turnings \ 

 and "windings^ to eflablifh a profeflional myflery i 

 in deceptively attempting to afcertain diftinc- ; 

 tions where none can with truth or certainty ; 

 be formed. 



'' The foUov/ing evil, or convullions, (he ' 

 " fays) is that which, in the phyfician's terms, 



*' comes under the denomination of an i 



*' Epilepjy, \ 



