312 STAGGERS, &c. 



*^ of thofe arteries which are fituated near the 

 *' optic nerve, which, by preffing upon the 

 ^' brain, will caufe a (baking in that nerve. 



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

 ^* fully into all the different appearances of 

 *^' that diftemper which farriers call the jiQg- 

 " gersy we fhall find them reducible to one 

 *' of thefe maladies above defcribed/* He 

 then proceeds to prove that the fkggers may 

 be the efted: of either i then mentions an at- 

 tack when the horfe is firft turned to grafs, 

 after a day or two's full feeding, and defines 

 that apopledic; and a fourth, that is, -' either 

 " a true apoplexy, or a vertigo, or perhaps 

 ^' both." I omit enlarging here upon thefe 

 palpable abfurdities and direct contraditlions, 

 quoting them to demonftrate the rnconfiftency 

 of following him through all thefe turnings 

 and wi?2dings, to eftablifh a profeffional myf- 

 tery in deceptively attempting to afcertain dif- 

 tindions where none can with truth or cer- 

 tainty be formed, 



*^ The following evil, or convulfions, (he 

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

 f * comes under the denomination of an £/^ 



