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in the stomach with water; or excessive eating at a crib may be the cause. 
Any of these produce a swelling of the stomach, and lead to the disorder. 
Sym ptoms.—The horse stands listless, drooping, drowsy, unsteady, or 
staring vacantly and unwilling to move; presses hard against the wall or 
rests the chin on the manger; occasionally falls asleep with partially masti- 
cated food in the mouth; pulse full and slow; yellow mucous membranes; 
bowels constipated; urine stops; breathing deep and snoring; if the disease 
increases, there ensues partial paralysis of the hind extremities; wild and 
staring eyes, or dilated pupil and insensibility to light; the animal walks 
around the stable, striking his head upon different objects; some tremors 
and sweats, with pain in the abdomen, or delirium; he stamps and looks at his 
' sides; lies flat down, or sits on his haunches, not rolling or throwing him- 
self as in colic; or brain-symptoms may predominate, the pulse being full, 
VIOLENCE SOMETIMES EVINCED IN STOMACH STAGGERS, BUT MoRE COMMON IN MAn STAGGERS. 
bounding and quickened; the horse raises the fore feet into the manger, 
falls back, blowing or snorting, and hes exhausted; rises, grows sleepy, the 
enlarged pupils of the eyes and wild expression giving place to drooping 
lids and hanging tongue and head, with staggering; then the furious man- 
ner recurs and, being repeated, is followed by death from ruptured stomach, 
These symptoms should be carefully observed, as some of them are attend- 
ant upon apoplexy and brain fever, One of these is indicated if the horse 
has not caten heartily after a fast, has not been at the crib, or on rich pas- 
ture in a hot sun when he is in bad condition, has not had grain whole and 
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