The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-08
FARMERS COLUMN.
HEAVES IN HORSES.

Heaves, broken wind, and asthma OF
pursiness, are not distinct diseases, but a
mere completely of symptoms; they are
collective names, embracing all those
chronical and feverleSs diseases and de-
fects of the respiratory organs, which
produce difficulty of breathing frequent
ly attended with short and dry hack
ing-cough, without showing any other
prominent symptom. Consequently We
have to distinguish different forms of
heaves in regard to cause, pathologic,
anatomical changes, and the manner in
which the difficulty in breathing is ex-
hibited. assattfltrG m1T fT83
One OF the most frequent causes of
heayes, or broken wind, is to be found in.
musty food, especially in musty timothy
hay; and as, East of the Mississippi river,
wild land (and consequently prairie hay,
tool is getting scarce, timothy hay is
becoming almost lat least during winter
the onlV rough provender} fed to our,
horses; further, as in many cases the
necessary care is not bestowed upon the.
harvesting and curing of the same, cases
of heaves have become alarmingly fire..
uueut among the horses in the more
There are many more other causes
producing so-called heaves, or broken
wind, but we may safely say that, in this
country, at least 80 per cent of all cases
have been effected by the feeding Of
musty and dusty hay; therefore we will
for the present pay our attention solely
to that form. sy
The symptoms, q. 6. the difficulty Of
breathing and the attending cough, are
90 we'll known, that think description
of the same is perfectly superfuous,
Only one sign may be mentioned, which,
though being also peculiar to many other
forms of heayes, distinguishes the same
from those difficulties of breathing,
which are caused in the larynx by par
alysis of the recurrent nerve. It is, that
the difficulty always is caused by and OBJ
served at the act of expiration, and never
by the inspiration, as it is in roaring !;
therefore, the heaving of the TANKS at
each expiration, which probably has
given the name to the whole. .aafai
After the heaves have once been fully
developed, perfect cure chat means
restoration of perfect health is impossi-
BILE: all we can do is give the suffering
animal relief, and this we can do to some
extent. In the beginning, .. e. in the
early stages, a rational treatment COM
bined with proper diet frequently will
relieve the horse SO much as to effect an
almost perfect disappearance OF the diff
Guilty of breathing. - al
''"oT This palliative treatment, at least in
severe cases, ought to be tWofold one,
consisting of dietetical measures, and of
s. medicines. The former are the most i'm
portant. When the horse is kept in the
Stable, we have to give him stall, which
Il is not too warna and admits plen of
fresh air; we have to feed him no hay
whatever, except, perhaps, little good
prairie hay; we have to take care that
his stomach is never overflled, and that
his bowels never become costive. Oats,
bran-mash, carrots, etc, and little clean
straw, must constitute his9principal food.
In spring and summertime, grass is the
d best food that we can give, and the pas
ture the best place we5can keepoa horse
which suffers with the heayes. ge5ab !.
Concerning medicines, a beneficial re-
suit has been experienced by giving each
morning, mixed with the food fbran
mash) the following powder; Arsenic,
from five to ten grains, ginger-rootl pow
der, and liccrice-root powder, of each,
from one to two drains. The arsenic is
recommended to be given in this way
five grains the first morning, six grains
the second, increasing the dose one grain
every morning, till it has reached 10
grains, then to pause one day and to com
mence the next with five grains again
and so on. Moderate exercise does nc
harm on the contrary, it is considered
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