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V V Hipfof. This difeafe is fecntidftm val- cbotly. 

 gHs^ called the Staggers^ but the true name thereof is the Sta- 

 vers^ it is a dizzinels in the ^m^, neerly allied unto xh^frenzy 

 when it feizcth the brain. It is ingendred fometimes of cor-; 

 rupt bloody and heavy and bad humours^ which do intoxicate 

 and opprefs the brain. It is a difeafe incident to almolt every 

 horfe, yea and that moft dangerous if it be not foon efpied. 

 Sometimes it cometh by feeding and grazing, at what time 

 the Horfe is hard ridden, that he be hot and fweateth, for by 

 his feeding and holding down his head fo low as to graze upon 

 the ground, the jeacam hamoMrs, do fall down to the head,and 

 there fettle, and in fliort time feizeth the brain, which bring- 

 eth this mortal difeafe. Sometimes it cometh by what was 

 occafioned by hard and over-violent riding, whereby the 

 whole body became dillempered,and the Mood inflamed and j^u- roYruH 

 trified •• And fometimes it cometh by eating over much, for yiJ, 

 thereby is the flomach fo over-charged with meat, as not to 

 be able to digeft and convert it all as it ought into good blood 

 and nutriment, and therefore mufl necelTarily breed evi! 

 hnmonrs^ which attaching the head and brain^ it is in conclufion 

 the cau^ of this difeafe. The Symptoms whereby to dif- 

 coverit, is, in that his y^gk will fail him, and he will hard- 

 ly be able to fee a white wall, he will flaver at the momh^ 

 and his eyes will be fwelled and run with much water and 

 other filth, and his gate will be reeling and daggering, he 

 will oft lye down and beat his head againft the planks, floor, 

 and walls, and when he is laid, his body, will quiver and fhake, 

 and he will forfake his meat*, and thefe be mo9 certain figns, 

 which I have ever obferved to be in Wy^^ opprefled and cx- 

 ercifed with this infirmity. 



But now to come to the cure : I will give you firft a g ^^^ 

 cure which a French Marijlial taught me, which by resfon it 

 founded to be fo mucH improbable, I wouldnever n -; ke trial 

 thereof, but fuch as it is you Ihall have if. Fallen nnto the 

 end of a itick alinnen Ragg, ^lid anoint it well with Bar- 



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