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head against the wall with such violence, that 

 the projecting parts are much bruised. 



From the view we have oiven of the staoforers, 

 it will appear, that the terms whicli forriers 

 have adopted to distinguish its different ap- 

 pearances are very inadequate; and that it 

 would be better to consider the disease under 

 the two following heads ; viz. the idiopathic 'Awik 

 tl^e s\j))iptomatic staggers. In the former, 

 bleetlino' is the orand remedy, and seldom fails 

 of affording relief, if employed with freedom at 

 the commencement of the disease. It will be 

 advisable also to give the following purgative 

 draught, and inject a stimulating clyster, com- 

 posed of a gallon of water and 8 oz. of common 

 salt. Should not the symptoms abate in eight 

 or ten hours after the bleeding, there will be 

 great probability of obtaining relief by opening 

 the temporal arteries, and suffering them to 

 bleed freely. 



I once saw a case in which the efficacy of 

 this plan was remarkably conspicuous : the 

 horse had been labouring under the disease 

 for several days, and delirium had taken place, 

 though he had been bled freely, and in every 

 respect, according to the account I received, 

 treated properly. When I saw him, he was 



