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quent cough. Sometimes he eats very greedily, 

 and at others will eat nothing placed before him, 

 or will take one kind of food and leave another, 

 or he likes dirty straw as his bedding better than 

 the best oats or hay, or, in some instances, his 

 morbid appetite leads him to lick the wall or eat 

 plaster from it. 



TREATMENT. Correct the feeding. Give not 

 too much, and only that most acceptable at first. 

 Give four or five drops of the Specific for Indiges- 

 tion, No. 10, morning and night. Should any 

 roughness of coat remain, a few doses of the Spe- 

 cific for Eruptions, No. 9, will soon correct it. 



STOMACH-STAGGERS. 



The cause of this condition is excessive reple- 

 tion and distention of the stomach with undi- 

 gested food. It occurs also from weakness of the 

 stomach, bad condition, old age, eating too much 

 dry food after long fasting, violent or hard work- 

 ing immediately after a full meal. These causes 

 prevent the digestion and passage of food, and as 

 a result, congestion to the brain and staggers. 



SYMPTOMS. Are similar to those of mad stag- 

 gers at the commencement, and are principally 

 known from each other by the manner in which 

 the disease comes on. The horse is found dull 

 and sleepy ; perhaps still eating slowly and care- 

 lessly ; or he is fast asleep, the head upon the 

 manger, or against the wall, or between his legs ; 

 the breathing is slow and labored ; the pulse 

 slower than in health ; the eyes closed or nearly 

 so; slight convulsions occur; the nose and eyes 



