DISEASES OF THE HORSE 45 



Glanders, or Farcy, may be mistaken for nasal catarrh, 

 nasal gleet, ulcerated teeth, nettle rash, lymphangitis, 

 distemper, etc. Fortunately, this dreaded disease is not 

 very prevalent in this country, as every precaution has 

 been taken to stamp it out. 



No Tkeatment: If at any time you have reason to 

 think one of your animals has the disease, or even a 

 neighbor's, or a transient horse, exhibits the symptoms, 

 it is your duty to report the fact to the State Veterina- 

 rian at once. You will do this if you have your own 

 welfare and that of your neighborhood at heart. 



HEAVES 

 (Emphysema of the Lungs) 



Cause: Fast or heavy work. It may follow Lung 

 Fever or Pleurisy, or the animal may inherit weakness 

 in the walls of the air-cells of the lungs. A very com- 

 mon cause is feeding dusty or dirty hay, or bulky food. 

 Horses that are accustomed to eating ravenously are 

 often victims of Heaves. 



Symptoms: Disease may develop slowly or rapidly. 

 When the animal is at rest, the air is taken into the lungs 

 in a more or less normal manner, but is expelled by two 

 distinct efforts, the abdominal muscles aiding the lungs 

 in expiration, as may be seen by the heaving of the 

 flank ; the movement of the ribs in breathing is scarcely 

 noticeable in a heavy horse. A healthy animal, when at 

 rest, will throw the air from the lungs in a single effort. 

 The difficulty in breathing is constant and increases in 

 proportion to the amount of food in the stomach and 

 intestines. At the beginning of the attack there is a 

 spasmodic cough, Avhich is more or less intermittent; 

 this develops later into a short, weak, suppressed cough, 

 as if the animal lacked strength in his chest to expel a 

 full breath, often accompanied by expulsion of wind 

 from the anus, which is somewhat protruded. 



Treatment : Feed good, nourishing food, but nothing 



