128 DISEASES OF THE HOESE. 



that the hemorrhage is so profuse as to require internal remedies. 

 But hemorrhage into the hmg may occur and cause death by suffo- 

 cation without the least manifestation of it by the discharge of blood 

 from the nose. 



TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNGS. 



Pulmonary consumption or tuberculosis has been recognized in 

 the horse in a number of instances. The symptoms are as of chronic 

 pneumonia or pleurisy. There is no treatment for the disease. 



HEAVES, BROKEN WIND, OR ASTHMA. 



Much confusion exists in the popular mind in regard to the nature 

 of heaves. Many horsemen loosely apply the term to all ailments 

 where the breathing is difficult or noisy. Scientific veterinarians are 

 well acquainted with the phenomena and locality of the affection, but 

 there is a great diversity of opinion as regards the exact cause. 

 Asthma is generally thought to be caused by spasm of the small cir- 

 cular muscles that surround the bronchial tubes. The contmued 

 existence of this affection of the muscles leads to a paralysis of them, 

 and the forced breathing to emphysema, which always accompanies 



heaves. . 



Heaves is usuaUy associated with disorder of the function ot diges- 

 tion or to an error in the choice of feed. Feeding on clover hay or 

 damaged hay or straw, too bulky and innutritions feed, and keeping 

 the horse in ''a dustv atmosphere or a badly ventilated stable produce 

 or predispose to heaves. Horses brought from a high to a low level 

 are predisposed. 



In itself broken wind is not a fatal disease, but death is generally 

 caused bv an affection closely connected with it. After death, if the 

 organs are examined, the lesions found depend much upon the length 

 of time broken wind has affected the animal. In recent cases very 

 few changes are noticeable, but in animals that have been broken- 

 winded for a long time the changes are well marked. The lungs are 

 paler than natural, and of much less weight in proportion to the vol- 

 ume, as evidenced bv floating them in water. The walls of the small 

 bronchial tubes and the membrane of the larger tubes are thickened. 

 The rio-ht side of the heart is enlarged and its cavities dilated. The 

 stomach is enlarged and its walls stretched. The important change 

 found in the lungs is a condition technically called pulmonary em- 

 physema. This is of two varieties : First, what is termed " vesicular 

 emphysema," which consists of an enlargement of the capacity of the 

 air cells (air vesicles) by dilation of their walls. The second form 

 is caUed interlobular, or interstitial, emphysema, and follows the 



