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pailfull of warm white water, and gathered a few fibres of hay 
that were in the manger ; in short, he lay down no more until he 
was perfectly convalescent. In fifteen days he was quite well. 
For the last five years he has been in hard service, and I have 
not lost sight of him. 
CASE VIII. 
20/A Mai/, 1826.—A horse labouring under staggers was put 
under my care. I pursued the mode of treatment recommended 
by Gilbert, and inserted four setons in his neck, and he was per¬ 
fectly cured. 
CASE IX. 
In the following month, another horse affected with staggers 
was placed under my care. Fifteen hours had elapsed since the 
first attack, and he had been during eight hours stretched on his 
litter. A farrier had seen him, and would have bled him; but, 
after striking him five or six times with the blood-stick, he gave 
it up, declaring that the blood was too thick, too frozen, to flow; 
and that explanation satisfied the proprietor, although he held a 
high station in the Academy of Medicine. Folly! where next 
wilt thou nestle ? This thickness of the blood, however, saved 
the horse. 
CASE X. 
7th March, 1827.—I gave an English horse, attacked with 
staggers, half an ounce of emetic tartar and an ounce of aloes. 
He was cured without relapse, or any of the ordinary conse¬ 
quences of this disease. 
CASE XL 
25/A August, 1827.—I was desired to see ahorse belonging to 
M. B—, that was very ill, stretched on his litter, and was said 
to be overworked, foundered, lost. He had been ill some twelve 
hours; and those who attended on him had not been niggardly 
in their bleeding, which had only made bad, worse. I prescribed 
an ounce of emetic tartar, not without many remarks on the 
quantity of the medicine on the part of the farrier who had pre¬ 
viously attended on the horse, and who vehemently declared 
that the case was absolutely incurable. The emetic was ad¬ 
ministered at eleven o’clock at night: at seven o’clock on the 
following morning I found him up, and searching for some fibres 
of hay amidst his litter, and which he ate with a certain de¬ 
gree of appetite. He apparently went on well during some days, 
and then he relapsed and died, after being for a while paralyzed. 
It is sufficiently plain that the good effects of the emetic were 
destroyed by the bleedings made so mal a propos. 
