Staggers^ ^c, 85 



But if a lethargic horfe does not lie 

 down, if he is altogether ftupid and care- 

 lefs, and takes no notice of any thing 

 that comes near him ; if he dungs and 

 ftales feldom* and e\^en whrle he fleeps and 

 dozes, it is a bad fign ; if he runs at the 

 nofe thick white matter, it may relieve 

 him, but if a vifcid gleet that flicks to his 

 noftrils like glue, which increafmg, turns 

 to a profufe running of ropy, reddilh, and 

 greenifh matter ; it is an infallible fign of 

 great decay of nature, and that it will 

 prove deadly. 



Young horfes, from four to fix years, Young 

 are very fubje<5l to convulfions from bots horfes 

 in the fpring •, and the large coach breed ^ut)jea to 

 more than the faddle : they are feized ^^"^r' 

 without any previous notice, and it bots bots. 

 and worms are difcovered in their dung; 

 the caufe feems to be out of doubt, more 

 cfpecially if they have lately come out of 

 a dealer's hands. 



"When this convulfion proceeds from From the 

 a diftemperature of the midriff, or any i"''<^"ff' 

 of the principal bowel?, it is to be diftin- 

 guifhed from bots and vermin by pre- 

 vious fymptoms : the horfe falls off his 

 ilomach^ and grows gradually weak, 



G 3 feeble. 



