182 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



nervous cenres, and consequent death of the horse in 

 from twelve to twenty hours. 



Treatment. — Injections of warm water and soap, and 

 a handful of salt to clean out the bowels, so the gas can 

 get free passage. Arrest fermentation by dissolving two 

 ounces of the sulphite of soda in a little water, to be 

 given at one dose, the dose to be repeated every hour. 

 Eight drachms of powdered aloes should be given, mixed 

 in a little warm water, and drench the horse with it to 

 stimulate digestion, and open the bowels. 



(2.) Grass or Sleepy Staggers. — Is a chronic 

 variety of stomach staggers, and should be treated as 

 for the above variety. 



(3.) Mad Staggers. — This is inflammation of the 

 brain, and is sometimes called Plirenitis. 



Sy^nptoms. — Dulness, followed by excitement and mad- 

 ness. The sleepy stage, or the congestive period passing 

 off, then the madness is seen, and the horse unconsciously 

 throws and dashes himself about, and some times endeav- 

 vors to climb up the wall, and at other times, ropes will 

 have to be used to keeph im from pulling back, and be- 

 coming unmanageable, and destroy other horses, harness, 

 carriages, and even the stable itself. Such is the power 

 of a mad horse, — a painful sight to see. Finally he 

 becomes exhausted, falls and dies, — a great relief indeed. 



Treatment. — The horse is not worth saving, and rarely 

 can be saved ; for nothing can, or will, give relief to a mad 

 horse, but bleeding, and this to so great an extent that 

 life does not rally ; and the horse dies, a dull, stupid, and 

 immovable mass, which can neither eat, drink, nor digest. 

 The brain is pressed with fluid and lymph, between the 

 pia matter and the archnoid. 



