36 STOMACH-STAGGERS. 



nature may be administered every night, for ten days 

 or a fortnight. 



RECIPE (No. 4). 



Alterative Ball. 



Take — Powdered nitre, two drachms ; 

 Sulphur, two drachms ; 



Black sulphuret of antimony (black antimony), two drachms ; 

 Linseed meal, two drachms : 

 Beat them into a mass with palm oil. 



A horse that has once had megrims is generally 

 subject to them again; and the honest man will not 

 sell, and the prudent man will not keep, the wretched 

 animal likely to injure himself or others when it may 

 be attached to an ordinary vehicle. 



CHAPTER IV. 



STOMACH-STAGGERS. — INDIGESTION. 



The primary symptoms of this disease have been 

 sufficiently described. In a confirmed case of this 

 nature, however, the staggering and unconsciousness, 

 with hard breathing and fixed eye, continue, and the 

 animal becomes more and more insensible and help- 

 less. These drowsy symptoms sometimes subside, 

 and are succeeded by violence, of the same kind as 

 that of phrenitis : this may be followed again by 

 stupor. Or the animal may perish without the vio- 

 lent stage appearing. 



