SYMPTOMATIC VKRTIGO. 
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* The following night was comparatively calm. The comatose 
state remained the same, but the access of fury was much more 
rare. Four setons were now applied, with the administration of 
mucilaginous injections. 
On the morning of the 20th, hanging back on the reins, and 
in such a state of immobility that it was only by severe blows 
with a whip that we could induce him to quit this position, 
diametrically opposite to that which he maintained so obstinately 
on the preceding days. 
An evacuation of semi-fluid faecal matter now took place, which 
I regarded as a good augury. He also urined in sufficient quan¬ 
tity, and without any violent efforts, which he had not done be¬ 
fore. Finally, the development of his pulse—the moisture of 
the skin—the countenance a little animated, accompanied by 
some degree of hearing, and a confused perception of objects, 
and the cessation of the tendency to bore forward were pleasing, 
and from which I was tempted to draw a favourable prognosis. 
I presented him with some whitened water, and he drank 
nearly half a pailful. In the course of the day he drank several 
times of the same liquid with avidity, even plunging his muzzle 
into it. 
21 St, —He continued to improve—his bowels were opened—he 
searched for something to eat, and perfectly distinguished sur¬ 
rounding objects. 
30^^.—He was dismissed. 
From this isolated fact, to which, however, I could add many 
others, I do not pretend to draw the conclusion that emetic 
tartar will always effect a cure in symptomatic vertigo; but it 
tends to support the opinion of the learned professor Gilbert^ 
and the valuable observations of MM. Philippe and Crepin. 
These distinguished veterinarians have proved, in a memoir full 
of interest, and containing a great number of well-detailed cases*, 
they have proved, I say, the immense advantage that may be 
derived from the employment of large doses of tartarized anti¬ 
mony in sympathetic vertigo. They have well-demonstrated the 
danger of having recourse to blood-letting in the treatment of 
this fearful disease, the primary cause of which is bad food, or a 
bad mode of feeding too long continued, and which must neces¬ 
sarily lead to irritation of the prirnm viae, and, sooner or later, 
dangerous vertiginous affection. For my part, I am well-assured 
that, in a practice of twenty years, I have seen more than suffi¬ 
cient of the inefficacy of bleeding in cases of staggers, and par- 
• See the Journal of Veterinary Medicine, tlieoretical and practical, for 
February 1835; and the Veterinarian for 1835, p. 257 and 258. 
