^400 — 



Arrest fermentation by dissolving two ounces of the sulphite of 

 soda in a little water, and giving it at one dose, the dose to be 

 repeated every hour. Mix eight drachms of powdered aloes in, a 

 little warm water, and drench the horse with it to stimulate diges- 

 tion, and open the bowels. 



(2.) Grass or Sleepy Staggers. — A chronic variety of stomach 

 staggers, and should be treated as the above variety. 



(3.) Mad Staggers. — This is inflammation of the brain, and is 

 sometimes called Phreniiis. 



Symptoms. Dullness, followed by excitement and madness. 

 The sleepy stage, or the congestive period passing off, then the 

 madness is seen. The horse unconsciously throws and dashes 

 himself about, and sometimes endeavors to climb up. the wall. At 

 times ropes will have to be used to keep him from pulling back, 

 and becoming unmanageable, thereby destroying harness, car- 

 riages, sometimes other horses, and even the stable itself. The 

 power of a mad horse is great, and a painful sight to see. Finally 

 he becomes exhausted, falls and dies. 



Treatment. The horse is not worth saving, and rarely can be 

 saved ; for nothing can, or will, give relief to a mad horse, but 

 bleeding, and this to so great an extent that life does not rally, 

 and the horse dies, a dull, stupid, and immovable mass, unable to 

 eat or drink. The brain is pressed with fluid and lymph, between 

 the pia mater and the arachnoid. 



Remove a mad horse, as soon as possible, from anything of value, 

 or that can be broken or hurt. Especially remove him from other 

 horses, so that he may not injure them. 



Staked, .'^n accident to some portion of the body, but most 

 frequently to the belly, occasioned by leaping fences, or it may be 

 by the horn of an ox, cow, or bull. 



Treatment. If the injury be at the belly, the wound having en- 

 tered it to some depth, ascertain, with the finger, whether any 

 portion of the bowels is injured, or has escaped through the open- 

 ing. If so, and part of them be torn, sew with small, fine cat-gut 

 (such as is frequently used by fishermen who employ artificial 

 flies as bait), and pass the bowel or intestine into its proper place, 

 closing the wound in the same way as is recommended for rupture 

 of the belly (which see). If the skin is only wounded, treat it as 



