'5 ^ The Parrier'j" New Guide. Chap. XV. 



and this may be occafion'd, either when an Animal is fear-^ 

 ful of falling, or from a Repletion and Overfulnefs of thofe 

 Arteries which are fituated near the Optick Nerve, w^hich, 

 b;/ prefling upon the Brain, will caufe a Shaking in that 

 Nerve. But our Bufinefs is only with the laft. 

 gj-j ^ Now if we examine a little carefully into 



/i r-hf'F/J all the different Appearances of that Dillem- 



rcaiicwle to , . , ^^ • - 11,0 n 



the one or the P^^' which r amers call the St avers or btag- 

 other, pro'vdby gers, we fhall find them reducible to one of 

 l^f.ances take^ thefe Maladies above defcribed. 

 from the 'v art- Y OX ^ firft ofall^ if we confider that Sort 

 cm Appearances wliich is the mofl: fimple, viz. when a 

 ofthaiDifecfe, pj^^i. fuddenly falls down upon the Road 

 in a vdry hot Day, or when he falls upon hard Ri- 

 ding, we fl:iall find nothing in the Caufe of this Diforder, 

 but what is in one of the former ,; and the Reafon of this 

 is eafy enough to be conceived, and will' happen to a 

 Plorfe, whether he be in a good or bad Cafe ; for when the 

 Blood is put into a more than ordinary Motion by any 

 hard Exercife, it will eafiiy flow into the Brain of a Horie 

 in a greater quantity, than can be readily returned by the 

 Veins ; and therefore the Origin of the Nerves will be 

 piefs'd upon by the diftending Veflels, fo as to intercept the 

 Animal Juices ; or otherwife thefe -may be fent forth in 

 Iqch dilorderly Manner, as to occafion a Horfe's falling 

 dov.n ; but in this Kind, when a Horfe has lain fome lit- 

 tle Space, and that the Impulfe of the Blood ceafes, it 

 then floVk'S more regularly through the Veins, by which the 

 Arteries become lei's diilended, and the Horfe recovers his 

 Senfes, and rifes up as from Sleep. Thus the Head is 

 affedcd in the fame Manner as in an Apoplexy; but as there 

 is little or no Fault fuppofed to be in ihe Blood, the Horie 

 foon recovers, and oitentimes without the Aflillance of any 

 Application. 



There IS another Kind of Staggers which refembles the 

 foi-mer, and ahoafTedts the Head in the fame Manner as an 

 Apoplectick Difordcr, and that is when a Horfe falls down 

 vhile at Grafs : And this Sort I have obferv'd happen the 

 firll or fecond Day after they were turn'd out; for while 

 they feed With a more than ordinary Intenfenefs, with their 

 Head conftantly down towards the Ground, the Blood 

 muft flow in a 'more than ordinary quantity to the Brain ; 

 snd while the Head is in ih s dependent Situation, tlie 

 Blood in its Pactum nruit aicend upwards : So that if a 



Horfe's 



