Staggers, &c. 8i 



If the fit proceeds only from fulnefs of When the 

 blood, high feeding, and want of fuffi- ^^^SS^rs 

 cient exercife, or a fizy blood (which is ^^^^^ggr- 

 often the cafe with young horfes, who, ous. 

 though they reel, ftagger, and fometimes 

 fuddenly fall down, yet are eafily cured by 

 the above method) an opening diet with 

 fcalded bran and barley will be neceffary 

 for fome time ; and the bleeding may be 

 repeated in fmall quantities. 



As to the other diforders of the head, Lethargy, 

 fuch as lethargy, or ficepingevil, epilepfy, ^^'"^'S^' 

 or falling ficknefs, vertigo, frenzy, and 

 madneis, convulfions, and paralytica! dif- 

 orders, as they are moft of them to be 

 treated as the apoplexy and epilepfy, by 

 bleeding and evacuations, with the altera- 

 tives there diredled, we fhall wave treating 

 on them feparately, but mention fome 

 particular rules to diftinguifh them, ac- 

 cording to the plan we laid down, and 

 then offer Ibme general remedies for the 

 feveral purpofes. 



Thus in order to diftinguifh epileptic Epilepfy 

 diforders and convulfions (which are of- and con^ 

 ten occafioned by worms, bots, and ul- ^"^^^o'^*- 

 cerations of the ftomach, bowels and mid- 

 riff) from thofe which arife from origi- 



