A CASE OF EPILEPSY. 
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The discharge of saliva now became copious but not offen¬ 
sive; but in a few days it was tough, viscid, and highly foetid. 
With considerable difficulty I examined the mouth, when I found 
the base of the tongue very much enlarged by the formation of 
vesicles on both sides, which were of a livid colour. I used the 
lancet freely. Very little discharge followed, but the vesicles in a 
few days disappeared, and the foetor ceased on my using a mix¬ 
ture of the diluted chlorides of lime and soda with Friars’ balsam. 
The muzzle and face still, however, continued enlarged and cede- 
matous; and I applied fomentations, and afterwards a mild blis¬ 
ter. Several small abscesses now formed, which I opened. The 
discharge from them was strangely various ; from some it was 
thin, sanious, and foetid, as from the most ill-conditioned sore ; 
from others there proceeded a milder and more healthy discharge. 
Stimulating caustic injections were applied to the worst, and 
proper dressings to the whole; and the bowels were kept open 
with small doses of calomel and aloes, to which were added 
Castile soap and opium. The mare is now nearly well. 
A CASE OF STAGGERS. 
By Mr. S. Goodworth, of Hoivden. 
A brown two-years old colt, the property of a gentleman at 
Rawcliffe, near this town, came up to the yard of his owner 
apparently in health. He had not been there long before he was 
observed to stagger and tumble about. The gentleman’s people 
commenced treatment by taking four quarts of blood from him, 
but without any relief: they, after a short time, took three quarts 
more. The horse then appeared worse, and I was sent for. It 
was on the sixteenth of May when I first saw the animal: he was 
laid in a straw-yard, apparently very much distressed. I got hold 
of the halter for the purpose of making him raise his head, which 
he did; but as soon as I let go the halter the head fell, and he 
appeared to be very much convulsed, and in the greatest agonies 
I ever beheld : his appearance was so much like the last struggles 
for life, that I said to the by-standers, “ I have just got here in 
time to see the last of him.” The whole frame was quite stiff; 
and so inflexible was every limb and muscle, that they resisted 
all attempts to move them: his eyes appeared quite drawn into 
the orbits, and he was covered with sweat. When he had been 
in this state a few minutes he began to tremble, and the whole 
frame became relaxed : he lay quite still for some time, but the 
least agitation produced the same convulsive fit, if I may be 
