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radical ufe. All pretended fecrets for the cure 

 of thefe dileafes, muft inftantly appear, to any 

 man of a tolerable (hare of medical information, 

 to be mere impofition : the bell fecret (and I 

 am forry it is yet a fecret among many) is a 

 diligent obfervation of fymptoms, and a fami- 

 liarity with the praxis and methodus viedendi 

 of the befh authors. For the theory of apoplec- 

 tic and convulfive difeafe in horfes, I refer the 

 juvenile pra61itioner to Bracken ; for the prac- 

 tic and method of cure, to Gibfon and Bartlet : 

 there he will find ample fatisfa61ion, but no- 

 where elfe, unlefs he meet with better fuccefs 

 than I have, after a painful fearch. 



Hippocrates fays, that convulfions may pro- 

 ceed either from fulnefs or emptinefs ; from 

 plethora and too much blood, occafioned by 

 want of exercife or phyfic ; or from e^^treme 

 labour, over purgation, long watching, fading, 

 or wounds. The fame may be faid of vertigo 

 or giddinefs, which may arife either from the 

 turgefcency and tenfion of the blood veflels in 

 the head, or the dilatation and weaknefs of the 

 veifels, and rarefaftion of the blood ; of the 

 latter cafe I can forrowfully aifure the Reader, 

 hand inexpertus loquor. 



The idiopathic staggers in horfes, anfwers 

 precifely in all refpecls, whether of caufe, fymp- 

 toms, or confequence, with the apoplexy of the 

 human fpccies. The proximate caufe of the 



difeafe. 



