STAGGERS, CONVULSIONS, &C. 77 



A table-spoonful of these powders may be 

 mixed in his corn every night and morning, first 

 sprinkling his corn with water, to make the pow- 

 ders adhere, and continue them for some time (or 

 if balls be more convenient, give No. 44, p. 70, 

 or No. 45, p. 71) ; or, if thought more proper, 

 they may be given in a mash of oats and bran, 

 every night and morning. When a horse has got 

 perfectly freed of this disease, the place where he 

 stood must be well cleansed, and his collar, gear, 

 saddle, clothing, or whatever he wore during the 

 disease, must be well washed with soap-suds ; by 

 which method the medicines will rarely, if ever, 

 fail of success. 



CHAP. XVI. 



THE STAGGERS, CONVULSIONS, LETHARGY, 

 EPILEPSY, AND VERTIGO. 



Staggers generally arise either from fulness of 

 the blood-vessels of the brain, or an inflammation 

 of it ; and as the former frequently terminates in 

 the latter, and both have symptoms common to 

 each other, they are, on this account, described 

 in the same section, under the denominations, 

 sleeping staggers y a?id mad staggers, or infiam- 

 mation of the brain. From this determination of 

 blood to the head, producing symptoms of convul- 



