100 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Diseases of the Heart. — Of diseases of the heart, 

 little need be said; and as little can be done in the way 

 of cure, so all I propose under this head is merely to 

 name a few of the altered conditions of the heart, which 

 are all embraced in the sweeping term "Heart disease." 



(1.) Enlargement of the heart. 



(2.) Wasting or shrinking of the heart. 



(3.) Foreign bodies in the heart. 



(4.) Fatty degeneration of the heart. 



(5.) Inflammation of the heart. 



(6.) 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, 

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

 reproduce an article 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 

 investment 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, in- 

 cluding the horse-Coper himself, can discover. Such an 

 animal h^s been turned over many and many a time with- 

 in the last three weeks, in or near Edinburgh. 



Our readers will remember a second article on heart 

 disease, in which 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 



