62 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND 3URGER?. 
ally raising it from the ground. Finally, ccnvulsions set in, and 
the subject dies in that state, perfectly unconscious. 
When hydrocephalus occurs after phrensy, or what is knowa as 
‘mad staggers,” it always proves fatal. 
Treatment.— For the treatment of hydrocephalus give the fc! 
lowing : 
No. 5. Fluid extract of buchu.......-ceeseess 4 ox. 
Walter sicc.s a! sce 0o:6 aie ase racer nie Sie oa sre helene, wee 6 on, 
Todide of potass.......+.+- ie wuslane ti acerets 2 os. 
Mix. 
Dose, two ounces, morning and evening. 
The patient should have injections of soap-suds, once or twice 
daily ; and should the disease have made its appearance very sud- 
denly, or, in other words, be of an acute character, so that the parte 
in the region of the brain feel hot, they should be then sponged very 
frequently with cold water; then give two drachms of fluid extra t 
of gelseminum twice daily, until the pulse feels soft, or until the 
acute stage subsides. 
StomAcH STAGGEhs. 
The cerebral disease usually denominated stomach staggers pre- 
vails among horses which are overfed, whereby the function of 
digestion becomes deranged ; and thus the food given accumulates, 
and finally gorges the stomach, producing cerebral derangement, 
which makes the horse reel and stagger likea drunken man. The 
horse may be said to be drunk from the effect of food. Sometimes 
the cause is accidental. A horse gets loose in the stable, and, find- 
ing a lot of meal or oats incautiously exposed, he devours vora- 
ciously a large quantity, and very soon after becomes the subject 
of stomach staygers. 
Symptoms.—A. stomach surcharged with food, without any ac 
companying distension, does not appear to occasion any local pain, 
but operates with that kind of influence upon the brain which gives 
rise to symptoms, not stomachic, but cerebral; hence the analogy 
between this disease and staggers, and the appellation for it of 
“stomach staggers.” The unnaturally-filled stomach produces, fer 
the first time, a sense of satiety ; the horse grows heavy and drowsy, 
reposes his head upon the manger, falls asleep, and makes a ster- 
vorous noise. All at once he rouses from his lethargy, and violently 
thrusts his head against the rack or wall of the stable or any thing. 
