578 PHREN1TIS, Oil MAD STAGGERS, IN A HORSE. 
sweetened with honey, and rendered acid by the Eau de Rabel. Internally 
he administered the red bark in powder, in doses of from four drachms to an 
ounce, with two or four ounces of acetate of ammonia, according to the age 
of the patient. These drinks were repeated twice in the day if the case was 
urgent. After two or three days, he sometimes saw the animal begin to 
revive, the mucous membranes to recover their natural colour, the ulcers to 
have a better aspect, and the pulse to be developed. 
[To be continued.] 
CASE OF PHRENITIS — MAD STAGGERS— IN A HORSE- 
[We met with this case in a sporting periodical — “ Annals of 
Sporting” — which had considerable circulation fourteen years 
ago. It is a graphic sketch, and should not be lost.] 
A HORSE of the light cart breed, fifteen hands high, had the ap- 
pearance of having done much work ; he was in a fair working con- 
dition, and quite blind. He had been employed several months in 
a mill at Mr. King’s tin-factory, on Snowhill ; and having evinced 
symptoms of ungovernable rage, the farrier was called in on Mon- 
day, the 11th of October. Thereupon it being judged advisable to 
remove the patient to the doctor’s own stables, it was found expe- 
dient to employ, in this operation, the twitch for his nose, another 
for an ear, and thus, with a cradle for the neck, he was conducted 
to the stable of Mr. Beeson, a farrier, near Carthusian-street, 
Charterhouse; but this building being of wood (clinker-built), 
proved too feeble for his efforts, when the paroxysms returned, 
as is usual, with increased force. In fact, much stronger erections 
have been found of little avail in confining other horses afflicted in 
the like manner ; and we have seen one of those edifices, yclept a 
pound, stone constructed, after the fashion used in the lower parts 
of Northamptonshire and Oxon, two-thirds demolished by an infu- 
riated horse of no unusual powers, save those derived from a dis- 
ordered sensorium. 
Mr. Beeson proceeded to reduce his patient by copious bleeding 
and the exhibition of a brisk cathartic ; but the good to be hoped 
for rather than expected from this treatment (a more pacific dis- 
position) was not in this instance realized, as too often happens. 
The poor animal went literally mad on hearing the footsteps of a 
gentleman’s coach-horses, which were driven into the yard on the 
afternoon of Tuesday ; and he broke down the front of his stable at 
a single thrust, committing many of those mad pranks which mark 
the highest state of excitability, and would be amusing to many 
beholders, if they were not sometimes personally dangerous, al- 
ways destructive of property, and ever terminating in the death of 
the chief enactor in the scene. In horses so affected, a disposition 
to run at and injure other animals, not excepting mankind, by 
gnawing and tearing with the teeth, snatching at moveable objects 
