DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



STOMACH STAGGERS 



Affords a good illustration of the fact that the brain 

 depends for its well-being on the healthy working of the 

 stomach. When the stomach is very full, the ox may be- 

 come comatose, so much so perhaps as even to exhibit a 

 tendency to fall down, especially if the head be elevated. 

 The respirations are slow and deep, the pulse slow and 

 full, and the pupils of the eyes dilated. In short, the 

 symptoms may simulate those caused by narcotic poisons. 



Remedy. — Give at once a full cathartic dose, and also 

 suitable stimulants. The disorder, as compared to the 

 same in the horse, is rather rare and unimportant. 



DELIRIUM 



Is not to be looked upon as a disease in itself, but as 

 symptomatic of different kinds of brain disorder. It is 

 met with in inflammation of the brain, in certain blood 

 diseases, in acute indigestion, in impaction of the oma- 

 sum, and as a result of some forms of poisoning, as, for 

 example, lead. 



A delirious ox has a peculiarly wild look of the eye, is 

 excitable — perhaps eveu frantic and furious; struggles vi- 

 olently against restraint; champs and exudes a frothy 

 saliva, &c. The best remedy is a bullet. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN (PHRENITIS), 



Is not common among cattle, but it is dangerous. It 

 is declining in frequency. It is best distinguished from 

 simple delirium perhaps by the fact that there is a man- 



