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of September. Those consist of a stable, or hospital, where 
forty patients may be accommodated. With the facilities it 
already possesses, with the capital it has in its treasury and with 
the unequaled name at its back of the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, we can predict, and most sincerely wish, for the new school 
all the success it deserves. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
DISEASES OF THE HEART IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
ESPECIALLY THE HORSE. 
By Fk. Blazekovio. 
(Translated by J. C. Meyer , Sr., V.S .) 
Continued from page 218. 
II. ^Etiology of Heart Disease. 
Diseases of the heart occur more frequently among domestic 
animals than has been generally supposed. The comparatively 
difficult diagnosis of the diseases of the heart causes such to be 
overlooked during life, and often confounded with lung diseases. 
The earlier schools, which were not acquainted witli the methods 
of physical examination, transgressed particularly in this re¬ 
spect, and, therefore, could not become familiar with the dis¬ 
eases of the heart. But if heart diseases be more frequent 
than has been heretofore known, it may be assumed that also the 
causes which give rise to such diseases often has an effect upon 
the organism. Domestic animals which are compelled to work 
are specially subjected to these affections. The greatest number 
of heart diseases is noticed among horses and draft cattle ; the 
smallest among sheep and swine. Canines, however, show a par¬ 
ticular disposition to heart disease. 
ftoell asserts correctly that very little is known about the de¬ 
velopment of the available movements and the setting in of the 
principal active causes. Nevertheless, after close examination of 
the interior as well as the exterior active movements of the organ¬ 
ism which chiefly influence the circulation and action of the heart, 
