“ GRASS-STAGGERS.” 87 
experience, when I subscribed mvself a “ student” in the 
Veterinarian for August. And I cannot see the use of the 
definite expression, “ twelve or fourteen years’ standing,” 
unless it is, as I before stated, an insinuation that he (Mr. 
Storrer) has been acquainted with veterinary literature for 
this number of years, which opinion is confirmed by the fact 
that he received his “ diploma in 1848,” and he must 
according^ have been acquainted with veterinary literature 
for the time in question. 
Mr. Storrer also states in his article, that “ I surely must 
have had an opinion from Mr. Paterson, Mr. Strangeways, or 
some other that might have come in my way.” A very strong 
proof this is, that the cases I described were not cases of 
grass-staggers. I certainly have had opinions from Mr. 
Paterson and Mr. Strangeways (from the former while with 
him as a pupil, from the latter while attending his lectures 
at the College), opinions which I cannot too much appreciate, 
and which I hope I shall never forget. At the same time I 
must inform Mr. Storrer, that the symptoms and appearances 
which I detailed in the August number of the Veterinarian? 
were not got up from a host of opinions, as he would have it 
to appear, but were the symptoms and appearances present 
in the cases I described, and which I had the opportunity of 
observing. I am quite satisfied they were not caused by 
“refuse paint, sheet lead,” nor any other kind of lead, nor were 
they the symptoms consequent on lead poisoning. 
Mr. Storrer also states that the cases referred to by 
Mr. Strangeways are very different from those I described. 
I think he cannot have been very particular in comparing 
the symptoms of grass-staggers described by Mr*Strangeways 
with those I detailed, or he could not have failed to observe 
the resemblance in almost every feature. He surely does 
not expect to find the symptoms in every case identically 
the same; they may be more or less aggravated according to 
circumstances. He also states that the symptoms described 
by Mr. Strangeways differ from those detailed by me, in 
being about a month later in making their appearance. The 
cases that I described occurred in May, when he says the 
grasses are very digestible, and being in the u half shot” state, 
ruminants thrive best upon them. Allow me to inform 
Mr. Storrer that this is just the time when the brain is most 
likely to become affected, as a result of indigestion, which 
the u half shot” perennial rye-grass is liable to produce, and 
more especially so if the weather is very dry, and the animals 
exposed to a strong sun. 
There is, however, no occasion for me to say more on the 
