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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... Diaphoretic Powder morning and evening. If the extremities are cold, manage as directed in article Mode of Producing Perspiration. Clysters are to be injected, and, if the disease be accompanied with purging, they should be composed of strong linseed decoction or water-gruel. STOMACH STAGGERS. There are two varieties of this disease--the sleepy or stomach, and the mad staggers; frequently, however, they are only different stages of the same disease, or varying with the cause that produced them. Symptoms.--In stomach staggers the horse appears dull, sleepy, staggering; when roused, he looks vacantly around him, seizes a lock of hay, and dozes again with it in his mouth. At length he drops and dies, or the sleepiness passes off and delirium comes on, when he falls, rises again, drops, beats himself about, and dies in convulsions. Cause.--The cause of this disease is sufficiently evident, and the disease never occurs except by mismanagement of the horse. It arises from over-feeding and want of proper exercise, or by getting at a great quantity of food of an improper nature, or by keeping the horse too long without eating. When he has been hard at work, and has become very hungry, he falla ravenously upon every kind of food he can get at, swallowing it faster than his small stomach can digest it; and no water being given to soften it and to hasten its passage, the stomach becomes crammed, and having been previously exhausted by long fasting, is unable to contract upon its contents; the food soon begins to ferment and to swell, causing great distension; the brain sympathizes with this over-loaded organ, and staggers are produced. We can easily imagine this when we remember the sad headache occasioned by over-loading the stomach. Sometimes the horse's stomach i...
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