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 class. BRACKEN, who speaks of it with more scientific and professional precision than any writer before or since, assimilates 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 vessels, the blood is more forcibly propelled upon the brain, from whence inflammation (in a greater or less 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 loss 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 less scientific remark of CAPTAIN BURDON, in his _Pocket Farrier_; who, for want of more polished terms, and technical phraseology, thus expresses 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 madness, 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, assafœtida, 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. STAG-HUNTING—is one of the most rapturous and enchanting pursuits within the privilege or power of the human frame and mind to enjoy. As HUNTING, in its general sense, is known to comprise an imaginary view of different kinds under that concise term, so various remarks will be found upon _each_, under the heads of CHASE, FOX-HUNTING, HARRIERS, and HUNTING; rendering unnecessary the introduction of _new_, or repetition of _former_ matter, more than what may strictly appertain to the distinct sport now before us.