Chap. XV. Of the St avers or Staggers, sj 



Horfe's Head be kept long in that Pollure, but efpecially if 

 the Blood be vifcid, and unapt to Motion, it will undoubt- 

 edly obftru(ft the fmaii Arteries, and caufe a Horfe to fall by 

 the Preillire ofthofe Arteries upon the Nerves. 



But that Kind of Stagger whereby a Horfe falls down in 

 the Stable, or when he is newly brought out into the 

 Light, or when his Exercife is but moderate, it is either a 

 true Apoplexy, or a Vertigo, or perhaps both ; but when a 

 Horfe reels and runs round, being fome time under the Dif- 

 order before he falls, that is plainly a Vertigo : And if after 

 a Horfe has thus fallen down, he immediately rifes up again, 

 but looks flupid and blind, reels and tails again, knocking 

 his Head againil; the Boards or Walls, thefe are alfo for the 

 nioft part Signs of a Vertigo ; for what fometimes happens 

 of that Kind in a Frenzy, comes not properly under this 

 Denomination ('tho' molt of our Authors confound them 

 together) unlels it be that Sort of Frenzy, which may pro- 

 ceed from extraneous Matter lodged on the Brain, or its 

 Membranes. But all thefe Symptoms we have now men- 

 tion'd, may, and for the moil part, do arife from a Verti- 

 go ; for here Senfation is not quite obllrucled, but, as we 

 fuppofe, a Vibration and fhaking of the Optick Nerve, the 

 Stable, and every thing about him, muft feem to run 

 round ; and if he rife in this Condition, he mutt certainly 

 fall, and that inltantly. 



Having thus given a ihort Account of the The Cure of 



different Kinds of Staggers, and the Caufes the Staggers^ 



thereof, we fliall in the next place, proceed to the Cure. 



And firltof all, whether they arife from an Apoplexy, or 



Vertigo, or only from an Over-repletion of the Blood-vef- 



fels of the Head by hard PJding, is'c. the Method to be ob- 



ferved, as to the firft Intentions, will be much the fame ; 



becaufe even in the moll fimple Kind we fuppofe the Blood 



to be fomewhat faulty, therefore Blood mull be taken pretty 



I plentifully both from the Neck-vein, and likewife from the 



] Spavin or Flank- vein, or from any other towards the hin- 



' der Parts ; but firft from the Neck, becaufe by opening that 



Vein, as it drains the Blood immediatety q^he Method of 



\ from the Head, that Portion of the Blood, hleeding Uorfes 



I which is in the fmall Arteries in the Brain, for Difeafes in 



as thefe are empty'd into the fmall Branches the Head. 



of the Vein that is opened, muft undoubtedly 



;:ive fudden Relief, and by that Means take oiT from the 



Preil'urc 



