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A iVEW MODE OF TREATING STAGGERS (VERTIGO). 
Bi/ M. Desaint, M.V., Depot, Pontivy. 
M. Huvellter having described the good effect which 
attended the use of white mustard seed in staggers (see The 
Veterinarian, Dec. 1834, p. 655), I also beg leave to narrate 
a mode of treatment peculiar, I believe, to myself, and which has 
been attended by results as satisfactory as I could desire. 
CASE I. 
July Dth, 1833, 4 p.m. —A strong horse was suddenly taken 
ill while he was eating a feed of corn. I was immediately sent 
for, and found him stretched on the pavement, with his head 
under the manger. I hastened to loosen his halter—got him 
up, and had him led into the yard. His walk was uncertain 
and staggering—he slipped several times on the pavement of the 
stable, and he fell on his head at the door, where the ground was 
a little inclined. 
When got into the court, he started at a quick pace—if he 
was stopped he reared, or threw himself on his head on the 
ground. The eyelids were opened widely—the eyes fixed and 
dull, and the pupils dilated. The tongue, of a blue colour, was 
swelled, and half protruded from the mouth, from which there 
ran a thick and ropy discharge. The artery was hard, and the 
pulse a little irregular. 
He was copiously bled, which was effected with difficulty, on 
account of his sudden and violent movements; a strap, how¬ 
ever, was fastened round his neck in order to compress the 
jugular, and the blood was suffered to flow on the ground. 
A moment of calm followed the bleeding, and I profited by it, 
and administered a pint and a half of cold water, strongly 
etherized. The closing of the jaws, and the protrusion of the 
tongue, were powerful obstacles to this; but we succeeded in 
getting down the greater part of the medicine. We then ad¬ 
ministered an injection of warm water, strongly ammoniated, 
which procured an immediate and copious dejection. The alkali 
seemed to produce a derivative excitement of the mucous mem¬ 
brane of the rectum, which was durable and effective. Simple 
emollient injections were afterwards employed. 
I then had him led into the school, and fastened him in the 
centre of it, by means of a swivel, so that he could describe a 
considerable circle, and I waited the effect of the first treatment. 
Three or four hours passed, and there was no improvement. 
It then occurred to me that 1 would inject up his nostrils cold 
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