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eagerness for food, will eat the mercurial mixture, 

 which will destroy them, and that the oils will throw 

 them off. 



APOPLEXY, OR BLIND STAGGERS. 



This disease, in the brain of the horse, is caused 

 by too great an accumulation of blood in that part. 

 The symptoms are a want of appetite ; drowsiness ; 

 inflamed and watery eyes, and a staggering movement 

 of the animal, from which the disease takes its name. 

 The head of the suffering creature leans on the man- 

 ger; the urine is discharged in small quantities, and 

 fever prevails in the system. Sometimes, in the ad- 

 vanced stages, he reels about as if blind, and unable 

 to keep his feet or see his way. Sometimes he 

 beats his head against the wall, and is struck for- 

 cibly to the earth, as if by some invisible power. 



The causes, besides too great fulness of blood in 

 the brain, are as follows: Colds, caught by being turn- 

 ned out into the field too early, after violent exer- 

 tion ; high feeding; want of exercise, and by moist 

 cobwebs, either taken in through the nose or mouth- 



If the first, or too much blood in the brain, be the 

 cause, copious bleeding must be resorted to ; two 

 quarts of blood from the neck, and a pint from the 

 thigh; after which administer half a pint of linseed 

 oil, the same of castor, forty grains of calomel, sixty 

 of jalop, and two ounces tincture of aloes. Give 

 the above every morning and evening, and be par- 



