02 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE ANT^ SURGERY. 



ally raising it from the ground. Finally, ccnvulsions set in, and 

 the subject dies in that state, perfectly unconscious. 



When hydrocephalus occurs after phrensy, or what is known as 

 " mad staggers," it always proves fatal. 



Treatment. — For the treatment of hydrocephalus give the fol 



lowing : 



No. 5. Fluid extract of buchu 4 oz. 



Water 6 oz. 



Iodide of potass 2 oz. 



Mix. 



Dose, 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 other words, be of an acute character, so that the pari s 

 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 geloeminum twice daily, until the pulse feels soft, or until the 

 acute stage subsides. 



Stomach Stagger. 



The ceiebral disease usually denominated stomach staggers pre- 

 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 efTect of food. Sometimes 

 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 

 of stomach staggers. 



Symptoms. — A stomach surcharged with food, without any ac- 

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

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

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

 between this disease and staggers, and the appellation 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 onoe. he rouses from his lethargy, and violently 

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



