Chap. XV. Of the Stavers or Staggers. $j 



Horfe's Head be kept long in that Pofture, but efpecially if 

 the Blood be vifcid, and unapt to Motion, it will undoubt- 

 edly obftrucft the fmall Arteries, and caufe a Horfe to fall by 

 the Preflure of thofe Arteries upon the Nerves. 



But that Kind of Stagger whereby a Horfe falls down in 

 the Stable, or when he is newly brought out into the 

 Light, or when his Exercife is but moderate, it is either a 

 true Apoplexy, or a Vertigo, or perhaps both ; but when a 

 Horfe reels and runs round, being fome time under the Dif- 

 order before he falls, that is plainly a Vertigo: And if after 

 a Horfe has thus fallen down, he immediately rifes up again, 

 but looks ftupid and blind, reels and tails again, knocking 

 his Head againll the Boards or Walls, thefe are alfo for the 

 moft part Signs of a Vertigo ; for what fometimes happens 

 of that Kind in a Frenzy, comes not properly under this 

 Denomination ftho' moft of our Authors confound them 

 together) unlefs it be that Sort of Frenzy, which may pro- 

 ceed from extraneous Matter lodged on the Brain, or its 

 Membranes. But all thefe Symptoms we have now men- 

 tion'd, may, and for the moll: part, do arife from a Verti- 

 go ; for here Senfation is not quite obftru(5ted, but, as we 

 fuppofe, a Vibration and fhaking of the Optick Nerve, the 

 Stable, and every thing about him, muft feem to run 

 round ; and if he rife in this Condition, he muft certainly 

 fall, and that inftantly. 



Having thus given a fhort Account of the The Cure of 

 different Kinds of Staggers, and the Caufes ^^^^ Sta^gers^ 

 thereof, we fhall in the next place, proceed to the Cure. 

 And firft of all, whether they arife from an Apoplexy, or 

 Vertigo, or only from an Over- repletion of the Blood-vef- 

 fels of the Head by hard Riding, iffc. the Method to-be ob- 

 ferved, as to the firft Intentions, will be much the fame ; 

 becaufe even in the moft fimple Kind we fuppofe the Blood 

 to be fomewhat faulty, therefore Blood muft betaken pretty 

 plentifully both from the Neck- vein, and likewife from the 

 Spavin or Flank- vein, or from any other towards the hin- 

 der Parts ; but firft from the Neck, becaufe by opening that 

 Vein, as it drains the Blood immediatety q-^^ Method of 

 from the Head, that Portion of the Blood, Hiedini Horfes 

 which is in the fmall Arteries in the Brain, for Difeafes in 

 as thefe are empty'd into the fmall Branches the Head. 

 of the Vein that is opened, muft undoubtedly 

 give fudden Relief, and by that Means take off from the 



Preffure 



