FHRENITIS, Oil MAD STAGGERS, IN A HORSE. 579 
generally, and rearing up, so as to paw down whatever may hap- 
pen to stand in the way, marks the mad and final career of such 
as retain proper vision to distinguish objects. Similar to hydro- 
phobia in many respects, the mad-staggers has few corresponding 
symptoms in common with that communicative malady : the one, 
being an affection of the whole system, occasions frothing at the 
mouth, and furious but grovelling attacks upon dogs in particular, 
biting without rearing up or lashing out behind ; the other is always 
marked by dulness about the eyes, with a little purulence, which 
is occasioned by a deranged brain, simply the effects of a disor- 
dered stomach, and the fumes thence arising, which affect the head 
by a sort of companionship that exists not only between these, 
but several other pair of parts in the entire system of animal life. 
From the moment of breaking out of the stable, as before-men- 
tioned, to his final exit, the particulars of his almost fantastic 
freaks were noticed by an observant tradesman of Barbican, whose 
shop the horse in question unaccountably avoided entering, when 
almost at the threshhold. From this source we have derived the 
following authentic and corrected information, which we give to our 
readers, with the design as much to inform them of the distin- 
guishing characteristics of two fatal disorders to which this main 
auxiliary of our field sports is liable, as it certainly is instructive 
and entertaining. 
To the Editor of “ The Annals of Sporting.” 
Sir, — An extraordinary case of madness in a horse, that was 
ultimately slain by me in this street, having been misrepresented 
in a few of its particulars, I feel some interest in its acquiring a 
more correct form in your very agreeable and useful miscellany. 
On Tuesday afternoon, about four o’clock, he bit and tore asunder 
the side wall next the door of the stable where he was confined, by 
prancing against it until he got into the yard. Here he met with 
Mr. Surgeon Spry’s carriage, which stands in the yard adjoining, 
and, after having seized the foot-iron, leaped up behind. Upon 
this, the horses were safely got out and lodged in their proper 
stable, and the carriage drawn away from the enraged animal. He 
then made his way to Aldersgate* street, ran across the road, to the 
shop of Mr. Horley, haberdasher, and, as if he were blind, ran against 
and broke the glass. Immediately upon finding this obstruction, 
he reared up on his hind legs, bit and tore the sash, and took in his 
mouth a bundle of crape, which consists of twelve pieces tied 
together, and threw it into the street : making another bite, he 
caught hold of ribands innumerable, and shook them as every 
thing else, like a dog shaking a rat. He next bolted over to the 
shop of Mr. Thompson, draper, at the corner of Long-lane, and, 
thereupon coming in contract with the window, he reared up, and 
