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partly over them, and he looks animated, but he 

 can hardly move : — this is ftag evil, of which not one 

 horfe in a thoufand recovers ; and, as fuch, it is, pe**- 

 haps, always better to relieve the fuffering animal 

 by putting him to death, than to prolong his mifery 

 by fruitlefs efforts. 



STAGGERS. 



This difeafe is divided by farriers into fleepy and 

 mad. 



In Jleepy Jiaggers a horfe is always dozing, and 

 refting his head in the manger; and, if waked from 

 this ftate, he foon relapfes into it again. 



From this ftate it fometimes degenerates into a 

 frantic flate, when it is called madjlaggers: at others, 

 the horfe becomes more and more llupid, and at lad 

 finks. 



Bleeding is the principal means of relief to be de- 

 pended on. Four, live, or lix quarts Ihould be taken 

 away ; after which a blifter may be applied to the 

 top of the head, and a feton put under the jaws: 

 the horfe Ihould be back raked, and an opening 

 clyfter thrown up, after which a diuretic ball may 

 be given, if practicable. In four or five hours the 

 bleeding fhould be repeated ; and on the following 

 day, if the ftupidity is only llightly decreafed, it muft 

 be again had recourfc to, by which means a cure will 

 commonly be obtained. 



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