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author left the army, he has met with a great 

 ftmnber of cases of this kind ; and beincr in- 

 formed that it uniformly proved fatal, destroy- 

 ing a very considerable number of horses an- 

 ■nually, he was led to pay particular attention- 

 to it; and was the more strongly induced to 

 this, from finding his own treatment unsuc^, 

 cessfuL 



The bodies of horses that died of the com- 

 plaint were carefully examined, and at length 

 a mode of treating it was discovered, which, 

 if seasonably employed, almost always proves 

 successful. As the disease is now known to 

 originate in the stomach, it will be described 

 under that head in the Appendi:^ (See Sto- 

 viacli Staggers.) It is suiKcient to observe here, 

 that it may be distinguished from apoplexy^ 

 or genuine staggers, by a yellowness of the 

 eyes and mouth, and a twitching or convulsive 

 motion of the muscles of the breast ; the horse 

 appears very feeble, the head hanxging down 

 as if oppressed with a considerable weioht; 

 the-fore legs totter, and frequently give way 

 suddenly, so that the animal appears to be on 

 the point of falling, but he rarely falls dowqi, 

 except in the last stages of the complaint ; he 

 seems to be insensible, and often forces his 



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