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few of the altered conditions of the heart, which are all 

 embraced in the sweeping term ^^ Heart disease/' 



(1.) Enlargement of the lieart. 



(2.) AYasting or shrinking of the heart. 



(3.) Foreign bodies in the heart. 



(4.) Fatty degeneration of the heart. 



(5.) Inflammation of the heart. 



(G.) Ossification of the heart. 



Such, then, are some of the distinctions made, when 

 speaking of diseases of the heart. And as an illustration 

 of what a horse with heart disease can do, and what can 

 be, and is sometimes done with such an animal so affected, I 

 reproduce articles from the Scottish Farmer, which may 

 be of interest to some of our American farmers. 



" If one of the busy paternity who delight in a deal, on 

 a dark Wednesday night, in the grass market, were asked 

 what sort of horse he wished to procure, as a safe invest- 

 ment for his ill-gathered coin, he would certainly prefer a 

 good-looking Clydesdale, sound in limb ; not a roarer, but 

 with a mysterious screw loose, which few, including the 

 horse-coper himself, can discover. Such an animal has 

 been turned over many and many a time within the last 

 three weeks, in or near Edinburgh." 



Our readers will remember a second article on heart 

 disease, in Avhich three cases were specially mentioned, and 

 one amongst them, under "observation." "A full-sized, 

 active gray mare, apparently fit for a goods van, having 

 been treated for a cold by a blacksmith, proved to be 

 sulferino; from dilation of the ridit side of the heart. She 

 was looked upon with interest by a strong muster of stu- 

 dents, who hoped to see further into matters, and proposed 

 to buy the mare, to be destroyed, as the only humane 

 method of treating her. But, as we are informed, a friend, 



