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the fore-legs do not give way now and then, 

 a^ if the horse were on the point of falling ; 

 it generally attacks horses in high condition, 

 particularly such as have been well fed and 

 not sufficiently exercised. 



7'he stomach staggers, on the contrary, 

 l^enerallv attacks horses of debilitated consti- 

 tutions, that are worked hard and ill fed. 

 When it attacks horses apparently in good 

 condition, we commonly find that they are 

 rather old, and have been exposed to hard 

 work: cases of this kind sometimes occur 

 among waggon horses, particularly when 

 from the sickness or inability of one or two 

 of the team the remainder are obliged to per- 

 form the whole of the labour : sometimes 

 it happens, as we have before observed, 

 from feeding voraciously as soon as a horse 

 returns from a long journey, and not taking 

 in any water, or not enough, to moisten the 

 food and render it digestible, or from swal- 

 lowing the food hastily without proper mas- 

 tication. In whatever way this complaint is 

 brought on, the symptoms are always 

 nearly the same, varying only in degree. 

 The delirium is generally proportioned to the 

 distension of the stomach. Vv hen this is con- 



