STAGGERS

.—This is likewise a disorder of the head, to which horses of the same description are constantly liable, bearing in many respects no distant affinity to the former; for although it cannot be deemed the very same disease, yet, as it is known to derive its origin from the same cause, it is evidently entitled to rank in the same cla . Bracken , who speaks of it with more scientific and profe ional precision than any writer before or since, a imilates it to the apoplexy and epilepsy of the human frame, and enters into an anatomical disquisition of many pages to justify his opinion. He most judiciously attributes it to its proper and only cause, a plethoric state of the body; and that by the preternatural distension of all the ve els, the blood is more forcibly propelled upon the brain, from whence inflammation (in a greater or le degree) consequently ensues; making the following remark, to which every experienced practitioner will yield his unqualified approbation. "That where one creature dies of a distempered brain from the lo of too much blood, there are twenty lives lost for want of taking away a sufficient quantity." In direct conformity with the opinion of Bracken upon the subject of REPLETION , may be quoted a plain and true, but le scientific remark of Captain Burdon , in his Pocket Farrier ; who, for want of more polished terms, and technical phraseology, thus expre es himself: "Don't let your horse stand too long without exercise; it fills his belly too full of meat, and his veins too full of blood; and from hence the staggers, and many other distempers, proceed." Admitting the affinity between the DISEASES , as lethargy, or sleeping-evil, falling-evil, or convulsions, frenzy and madne , stag-evil, or staggers, all practitioners consider them individually a species of APOPLEXY , originating in nearly the same cause, and to be relieved only by the same means. Under which conjunctive authority, plentiful bleedings, repeated stimulative glysters, and internally, a afœtid a, camphor, valerian, castor, and such other ingredients as powerfully act upon the nervous system, constitute the whole that can with consistency be introduced in all cases of a similar description.