^2 DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND ">URG£RT- 



ally raising it from tlie ground. Finally, ccnvuLsions set in, and 

 the subject dies iu that state, perfectly unconscious. 



WTien hydrocephalus occurs after phrensy, or what is known af 

 ''' mad staggers," it always proves fatal. 



Treatment. — For the ti-eatment of hydrocephalus give the fol 



iowiog: 



No. 5. Fluid extract of buchu 4 o*. 



Water 6 oz. 



Iodide of potass 2 oz. 



Mix. 



Doso, two ounces, morning and evening. 



The patient should have injections of soap-suds, once or twice 

 daily ; and should the disease have made its appearance very sud- 

 denly, or, in othrr words, be of an acute character, so that the par<« 

 in the region of the brain feel hot, they should be then sponged very 

 frequently with cold water ; then give two drachms of fluid extra* t 

 of geLseminum twice daily, until the pulse feels soft, or until the 

 acute stage subsides. 



Stomach Staggei-^. 



The ceiebral disease usually denominated stomach staggers pro 

 vails among horses which are overfed, whereby the function of 

 digestion becomes deranged ; and thus the food given accumulates, 

 and finally gorges the stomach, producing cerebral derangement, 

 which makes the horse reel and stagger like a drunken man. The 

 horse may be said to be drunk from the effect of food. Sometimi?* 

 the cause is accidental. A horse gets loose in the stable, and, find- 

 ing a lot of meal or oats incautiously exposed, he devours vora- 

 ciously a large quantity, and very soon after becomes the subject 

 cf stomach staggers. 



Symptoms. — A stomach surcharged with food, mthout any ac- 

 companying distension, does not appear to occasion any local pain, 

 but operates with that kind of influence upon the brain which givea 

 rise to symptoms, not stomachic, but cerebral ; hence the analogy 

 between this disease and staggers, and the apj>ellation for it of 

 " stomach staggers." The unnaturally-filled stomach produces, for 

 the first time, a sense of satiety ; the horse grows heavy and drowsy, 

 reposes his head upon the manger, falls asleep, and makes a ster- 

 torous noise. All at onop. he rouses from his lethargy, and violently 

 thrusts his head against the rack or wall of the stable^ or any thing, 



