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inflamed and full of tears, and the appetite 

 diminished ; the disposition to sleep gradually 

 increases; and in a short time the horse is 

 constantly resting his head in the manger, 

 and sleepmg. The pulse is seldom much al- 

 tered ; in a few cases I have found it unusually ' 

 slow: costiveness and a defective secretion of 

 urine commonly attend this complaint. Some- 

 times the disease will continue in this state 

 for several days ; at others it assumes a formi- 

 dable appearance very early, or even at its 

 commencement, the horse falling down and 

 lying in a state of insensibility, or violent con- 

 vulsions coming on. Sometimes a furious 

 delirium takes place, the horse plunging and 

 throwing himself about the stable, so as to 

 render it dangerous for any one to come near 

 him. Prom this variety in the symptoms, 

 writers on farriery have divided the disease 

 into tiie sletpy and the mad staggers. 



There is another kind of staoorers, which 

 arises from a distension of the stomach, and 

 most commonly attacks horses employed in 

 agriculture, or in any kind of hard work, when 

 their condition is not equal to their labour, 

 and particularly when they are badh' managed 

 with respect to food and water. Since the> 



