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3Iad /loggers. Very frequently the Jleepi/ /(aggers 

 degenerates, after a few days, into this; at other 

 times mad ftaggers comes on at once. In this dif- 

 eafe the horfe is furioufly delirious, fo as to render it 

 very dangerous to come near him. He fhould be 

 carefully fecured; and, if poflibk, either flung, or 

 kept on the ground. Five, fix, feven, or even eight 

 quarts of blood, according to his fize, fliould be 

 taken away, and which, if neceflary, in a few hours, 

 ihould be repeated ; but the firft bleeding gives the 

 greateft chance of recovery. If the horfe cannot 

 fafely be got at, plunge the fleam into the vein, and 

 let it bleed without any attempt at flopping it: even 

 fainting from the lofs of blood will be of no preju- 

 dice. If the horfe can be approached, a fimilar 

 treatment in other refpeds fliould be purfued as in 

 the former cafe. 



STOMACHICS. See Cordials. 



STRANCiLES. 

 This difeafe confifl,s in an inflammation of the 

 glands under the throat, which ufually attacks young 

 horfes between four and five years old. Thefe glands 

 commonly proceed to fuppuration, and burft ; and 

 during this procefs the horfe is a little dull, has a 

 cough, and a difcharge from his noflrils. Some- 

 times the difeafe is not fo mild, but is attended 



