, 1872-12-10

uprising against oppression, whose troops Coli
| fronted the present Emperor of Germany on
the field of Upstadt.
THE FIELD AND STABLE.
| Thumps, or EaIpitH4i0n OIL the FIeart.
in E1orses-Its Causes and Treatment
| - So-Called Big-EEcad uni> Yolf,s-
| Teeth.
| From Our 01oz Correspondent.
MANHATTAN, Kan, Dec. 6, 1s7o.
THU3Ps, OF PALPITAr1ox IN HORSES.
| Thumps may be justly considered as one IT
| the most peculiar diseases that occur. It un-
| doubtedly is Of Bpasrnodic nature, and mani
tests itself by q violent beating or humping,
isoehronal with the beating Of tbs heart and
! with the pulse, and can be felt all over the
animal, but usually proves to be most forcib1e
in the tanks. 1t makes it's appearance rnther
suddenly, and is attended, at least in the begin
ming, Tith more or less increased frequency OF
the pulsatiou the pulse, in some cases, il even
accelerated to 60 OF 70 beats in minute.
The appetite, too, is more or less dis
turbed; and, in mary cases, symptoms
Of unessiness, resembling those OF slight collie,
can be observed. Afterward, all indications OF
q general morbid affection disappear This
humping itself is frequently go violent as to
Bhake the whole body, and is to the touch Of the
hand put on the flank, as though something
solid WAS pushed rathor suddenly from within
against the wall Of the abdominal cavity. Al
though there can scarcely be any doubt that
this peculiar humping is connected with tbs
contractons OF the heart, the auscultation Of the
thoraoio cavity does not reveal anything abnor-
nal neither can We feel an uncommonly strong
1,oef;no ~ tho heart bv uniting the
hand On the left side OF the chest, Just BE-
N Har disease dis 0s' Is generally short one, for
the humping, in great many cases, dlsap-
Or three days, and only a. few instances have
been observed in which it has continued aa lonS
as fourteen days. Repeated attacks seem to be
a rare occurrence.
The causes Of Thumps are perfectly unknown.
Severe exercise has been accused as an exciting
cause still, numerous cases are On record in
which the disease has made its appearance with
out any observable cause whatever. The few
post-mortens examinations that have been made
have not given any1ight, for the morbid changes
that have been found not only differed very
widely in almost every case, but were also Of
such character as to make any causal connec-
tion, or relation, highly improbable. Pehr
endeavored to find the cause in an accumulation
Of blood in the heart and in the posterior aorta
Pastney observed thumps after colo had pre-
ceded Cartwright aCcueed 8 gpasmod1c action OF
the diaphragm, but did not explain the isochron-
ism with the pulsation and the beating Of the
heart. Il CartYright's opinion was correct, then,
one shou1d Judge, the humping must be stimuli
taneous with the inspiration, rather than with
the beating of the heart. At post-mortem ex-
aminations he found nothing that iB able to
sustain his opinion or that can have any causal
connection with the disease; he found rupture
of the stomach and intussusception Of the in
testinea, Sansod ACCUSES Inflammation OF the
heart and Anker found at the post-7noTten ex-
animation in one case intlamnatory changes
on the pluyia, and in another inhamna-
tion Of the diaphragm. Goubau1,
in order to ind the true Cause, opened
the thoracic cavity, introduced his arm and con-
yinced himself (?) that the thumplng proceeded
from the diaphragm; but Delafond who re-
peated the same experiment could not find any,
thing abnormal on The diaphragm, and came to
the conclusion that the humping had its seat in
the abnormal muscles. Bouley considered
Thumps to be a neurotic disease Of the heart;
and Iafosse who examined simultaneously the |
humping, the beating Of the heart, and the pull
sation, found all three perfectly isochronal and
declared lhnmps 10 pe palpltotlon OF The
heart. Roeu prOnounces the dl9ease nervous
disorder; and Professor Herring, who had an op-
portunity to disaect an old stallion which had
d;ad If stranoulatad harnia and had had dnr- |
~ h;s ia 11f}a frennant attacks ~ Th1,nons
1ouuo uoto6 aunotna'? eitlei - tne neals al4u
large blood-Tessels or IN the diaphragm. a
great many other authors, also, we're not able to
find ANYTHING that might possibly have acted ae |
q cause. From all this negative and contra- |
dictory eyidence we neceesarily have to come to |