420 FITS, MEGRIMS, NATURAL REMEDY. [BOOK II. 



subject in a " falling fit;" but all those symptoms 

 disappear upon employing the proper remedies, 

 some of them so quickly and by such means as to 

 appear the effect of a simple mechanical operation. 



The cause of staggers, and the symptoms that 

 distinguish the one kind from the others, being 

 thus settled, without distracting the inquirer with 

 the needless distinctions of agriculturists or the 

 fanciful reveries of the doctors, let us proceed to 

 the 



Remedies. — Farm horses that live much in the 

 straw-yard, and work hard on bad hay, will some- 

 times stand still at once, as if struck motionless in 

 the midst of their work, which is a sure sign that 

 some great leading function has been suspended 

 for the moment by reason of the great exertion. 

 The driver has nothing more to do in this case than 

 to let the tired creature rest for the space of a 

 minute or two, and than proceed in his work a little 

 more leisurely. 



In all ordinary cases of staggers, simply opening 

 the bowels will effect a cure, nine times out of ten ; 

 and when the animal shows symptoms of a disor- 

 dered stomach, the coming disorder may be warded 

 off by a dose of physic. In violent attacks, let a 

 clyster be first employed, of warm water, in which 

 common salt has been dissolved, and the hardened 

 dung brought away by manual assistance — as more 

 fully detailed elsewhere — see the mode of doing 

 this effectually, at page 199. We have found vio- 

 lent cases of staggers cease by this remedy alone, 



