4lO ON STAGGERS. 



dependance. Blundevil fays he has feen a mad 

 horfe bite the flefh from his own fhoulders. 



Gibfon defcribes the fymptom of a horfe 

 rearing up, and falhng back, on the approach 

 or any one to handle his head, referring the 

 caufe to water in the ventricle, which from the 

 ereft polition of the head, flowing backward, 

 caufes a fudden preffure and weight on the 

 cerebellum and origin of the nerves. He fays 

 young horfes are moft liable. I have feen one 

 or two inftances of this, which the farriers call- 

 ed the megrim. I w^as not clearly fatisfied, 

 that the head was the feat of the difeafe ; but if 

 fo, I fhould fuppofe that frequent moderate 

 bleedings, fetons, or rowels, and the medicines 

 prefcribed generally in convulfions and epilepfy, 

 mufl be indicated. 



In genera], the epilepsy is rather to be 

 referred to a \veak caufe and to inanition, than 

 to plethora. The convulfions do not always 

 proceed originally from the head, but from 

 aflbciation with fome other affected part. The 

 caufes, immediate or remote, may be conllitu- 

 tional debility, exceflive exertion, labour unac- 

 cullomed, or too long continued. without the 

 neceffary remiffions. The common figns are, 

 reeling and daggering, eyes fixed, infenfibility 

 to every thing, turning round, fudden falling 

 down, convulfions fucceeded by ftillnefs, infen- 

 fibility as if death were approaching, \tg?, 



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