 I have seen about a quart of man's excrements, which had been some days discharged, thinned with as much ale, poured into a horse stark mad in that violent distemper they call the staggers, of which they commonly die in a few hours; and the distemper...  The Philosophical and Theological Works of ... - Page 206by John Hutchinson - 1749Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...days discharged, thinned with as much ale, poured into a horse stark mad in that violent distemper they call the staggers, of which they commonly die in a few hours; and the distemper abated, and the horse recovered." —Ibid. p. 206. He calls this in the margin, a common... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...days discharged, thinned with as much ale, poured into a horse stark mad in that violent distemper they call the staggers, of which they commonly die in a few hours; and the distemper abated, and the horse recovered." —Ibid. p. 206. He calls this in the margin, a common... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - Animal extracts - 1899 - 600 pages
...discharged, when thinned with as much ale, poured into a horse stark mad in that violent distemper they call the "staggers," of which they commonly die in a few hours, and the distemper abated, and the horse recovered. Southey, i[noting from Batchelor, notes that Sir Edward... | |
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