APOPLEXY IN THE HORSE. 
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dull; the head resting against the manger ; the respirations low 
and deep; and the pulse small and concentrated. He purged 
them both :—one died ; the other recovered, but in two months he 
became blind. 
In the following month he had another case; it was a mare : 
she recovered from the staggers, but in two months she became 
blind. 
Three months after this, he attended on a horse near Havre 
with staggers. The animal recovered, but, a month afterwards, it 
was observed that he lifted his fore-feet hitcher than usual, 
while the slightest noise frightened him, and his ears w^ere in 
perpetual motion. On careful examination it was ascertained 
that he was perfectly blind in the right eye, and could see very 
little with the left. At the expiration of nine months, M. B. P. 
happened to see the horse again: amaurosis was then complete 
in the right eye, and the left eye was merely sensible to the dis¬ 
tinction between light and darkness. 
Staggers may probably lay the Foundation for Amaurosis .— 
I have a perfect recollection of one case, in which amaurosis ap¬ 
peared to be the consequence of staggers. Six weeks elapsed 
between the cure of the staggers and the occurrence of blindness. 
1 confess that I did not then trace the connexion between these 
diseases; I was not in possession of these facts ; and we have 
too few successful cases of staggers : but I can now imagine that 
occasionally, and oftener than we are aware (for the time which 
is interposed between the two may mislead us), the foundation 
. for amaurosis may be laid when the origins of all the animal 
nerves, and these among the rest, and more than any of the rest, 
are oppressed and injured by the accumulation of blood. 
The records of human medicine contain the history of the case 
of a female who was every day blind for a little while after her 
principal meals. 
'Fhe System of Feeding the grand Cause of Staggers. —The sys¬ 
tem of liorse-management is now essentially changed. Shorter 
stages, a division of the labour of the day, and a sufficient inter¬ 
val for rest and for feeding, have, comparatively speaking, ba¬ 
nished the sleepy staggers from the stables of the postmaster: 
and the morning and afternoon labour of the farmer’s horse, w'itli 
the introduction of that simple, but invaluable, contrivance, the 
nose-bag, have rendered this disease com|i)aratively rare in the 
establishment of the agriculturist. To whom we are indebted for 
these important improvements I know not: perhaps dearly- 
bought experience gradually taught the farmer and the jiost- 
m as ter wisdom. 
Mr. White's Account (fthc J'^pizootic in Swansea. —Mr. White, 
