STAGGERS. 
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nized the symptoms of staggers. Another veterinary surgeon 
attended with me, who requesting me to act as I thought best in 
such a case, I administered an ounce of emetic tartar about eleven 
o^clock in the morning. The horse beat himself about very much 
during the day, and, at seven o’clock in the evening, he fell, and 
was not able to rise again until the following day, when he ap¬ 
peared to be considerably better. The other veterinary surgeon, 
however, thought it his duty to bleed him, and he begged me to 
repeat the bleeding some time afterwards. I did so reluctantly, 
but honestly ; and, at eleven o’clock on the succeeding day, the 
knacker carried the animal away. I am far from imputing any 
blame to that surgeon, with whom I live in habits of friendship, 
and whom I sincerely respect; but I confess that I regard the 
death of this horse as attributable, in great part, to the copious 
bleedings that were practised at the moment that he was begin¬ 
ning to get better. 
CASE XIV. 
At the beginning of August, 1829,1 attended a horse, the pre¬ 
cise nature of whose disease was not evident for some days. I 
could only affirm that there was some internal inflammation; 
and yielding to the necessity which the veterinarian often feels 
to appear to be doing something, in order that he may not be 
considered as quite useless, I practised a bleeding, to which both 
the owner and the coachman much urged me. The animal was 
put on restricted diet and white water; at the end of three days, 
his loss of appetite and his dulness had increased, and I began 
to recognize the symptoms of stomach staggers {vertige ahdo- 
minal). After many a violent struggle the horse fell. I then 
administered the emetic; it was about midnight. On the fol¬ 
lowing morning he had got up of his own accord, and without 
assistance; in the course of the day he appeared to improve, and 
he drank a little; but during the following night he relapsed, 
and died. 
Journal, Fev. 1835. 
[We are merely chroniclers here—and leave, for the present, 
this novel and singular mode of treating vertigo to the con¬ 
sideration and experience of our readers.— Edit.] 
