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value of the proper treatment, nursing and attendance of animal 
suffering with heart disease. Diet is at the head. Many a nobl 
race horse lias fallen victim to injudicious feeding; my exper; 
ence in this direction has been particularly extensive. Wit] 
moderate, not too proteinaceous food, more hay than oats, tui 
nips, cut straw, etc., and light work, such animals will provi 
serviceable for a long time; but herbage and pasturage are spec 
ially recommended for such patients. Whenever possible it i 
always advisable to put a horse afflicted with heart disease to ; 
stud or pasture. 
I have had mares in the stud for years which were emphyse 
matous to a high degree, with considerable organic defects of th( 
heart which, notwithstanding these great defects, could accoin 
plish parturition without any disadvantage. Nothing acts s< 
beneficially upon chronic affections of the heart as the agreeabh 
breeding life. 
Proceeding with the direct therapeutic treatment, we will firs- 
of all consider the acute inflammatory diseases of the heart whicl 
by timely interposition warrant the most hope of recovery. 
In all inflam ma ton 7 diseases of the heart a thorough anti¬ 
phlogistic treatment is in order. The successful remedies in tlu 
whole antiphlogistic procedure are, above all, venesection at tin 
proper time and cooling agents. The beneficial effect of vene 
section at the outset of the inflammatory hyperamie, when the 
impulse of the heart becomes manifest, and the murmur rattling 
is not to be doubted. Indeed it sometimes happens that after ;i 
few hours, hyperamie in the cavity of the heart and myocardium 
disappears. Next are the local cold applications. A bag contain¬ 
ing cracked ice applied to the region of the heart and thorax, pro¬ 
ducing a continual trickling of fresh cold water, in this kind ol 
heart disease has an exceedingly good effect. Especially does 
the cold act in a regulating manner upon the violent action of the 
heart, and upon the lowering of tiie temperature of the body. 
Also in all chronic defects of the heart where a violent alteration 
of the heart is called forth by an attack, the application of local 
cold will always compensate the physician and remove such 
violent intervals. The applications must be made on such parts 
