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STAGGERS. 



This disease is divided by farriers into sleepy and 

 mad. 



lii sleep}/ staggers a horse is always dozing, and 

 resting bi.s liead in the manger ; and, if waked from 

 this state, he soon relapses into it again. 



From this state it sometimes degenerates into a 

 ^ frantic state, when it is called mad sfas:s:ers : at others, 

 the horse becomes more and more stupid, and at last 

 sinks. 



Bleeding is the principal means of relief to be de- 

 pended on. Four, five, or six quarts should be taken 

 away ; after which a blister may be applied to the top 

 of the head, and a seton or rowel put under the jaws : 

 the horse should be back-raked, and an opening 

 clyster thrown up ; after which a diuretic ball may 

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

 bleeding should be repeated; and on the following 

 daT, if the stupidity is onlv slightly decreased, it must 

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

 commonly be obtained. 



Mad staggers. — Very frequently the sleepy staggers 

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

 times mad staggers comes on at once. In this dis- 

 ease the horse is furiously delirious, so as to render it 

 very dangerous to come near him. He should be 

 carefully secured ; and, if possible, either slung, or 

 kept on the ground. Five, six, seven, or even eight 

 qi-iaris of blood, according to his size, sliould be 

 taken away, and which, if necessary, in a few liours, 

 sliould be repeated ; but the first bleeding gives the 

 greatest chance of recovery. If the horse cannot 

 safely be got at, plunge the f*eam into the veiiv and 



