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Definition of Blind staggers
1. Noun. A disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling.
Medical Definition of Blind staggers
1. Subacute selenium poisoning in animals. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blind Staggers
Literary usage of Blind staggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Animals: History and Description of the Horse, Mule, Cattle, Sheep by Richard Lamb Allen (1848)
"blind staggers. This is generally confined to pigs, and manifests itself in
foaming at the mouth, rearing on their hind legs, champing and grinding their ..."
2. Tachyhippodamia: Or, The New Secret of Taming Horses by John Solomon Rarey, Willis J. Powell (1872)
"Whether a horse be inclined or not to have the bots, this remedy will do him no
hurt. THE blind staggers. It is believed, that the disease called STAGGERS, ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"«Don't you know enough of a horse to know he could n't kick with blind staggers?
» insisted the Scotchman. McGaw did not answer. « Does anybody know any of ..."
4. Contagious Diseases of Domesticated Animals: Continuation of Investigation by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"A disease is prevailing at this time among horses called blind staggers, which
is very fatal ; 50 per cent, of those attacked die. ..."
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