Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-10
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IMAGINARY DISEASES OF HORSES.
J.AMPAS.

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is sometimes q real disease, though one OF
little consequence, but oftener exists only III
the Imagination. 1t is caused in young anil
mails by teething just, as a similar conges-
ton of the gums originates in children; IN
adult horses, it sometimes occurs with dis
eases of the stomach and bowels, from sym
patty with these organs. 1t Is, therefore,
generally seen in such animals as have been
poorly fed, in those that have been winter
Ell on coarse, nutritious feed-in such ami
mails the digestive organs are always more
or less impaired, and intestinal parasites
multiply to a surprising extent. We can
therefore, understand why frizzly hair, near
the root of the tail, is considered symptom
of lampas, since parasites cause an lrrlta-
ton and itching of the rectuim, which leads
the animal to rub its tail against the sides
of the stall or other objects, and this rub
bling, in turn, causes a frizzly appearance OF
the hair. Very often such horses have a ca
PRECIOUS appetite, and when put to hard
work in spring, lose it entirely at tirnes !;
again. when the spring work comes on their
feed is increased, they eat more than their
stomach is accustomed to, and more than it
can properly digest, causing disease of this
organ and consequent loss of appetite. In
all these cases OF diminished appetite, the
mouth is examined for lampas, and it is not
hard for the owner to convince himself of
its existence; for. since he has heard of no
other cause for the trouble, he decides this
must be present. And, then, to cure a sup
posed tenderness and soreness of the part,
he goes to a blacksmith and has q red hot
iron held against the roof of the poor ami
malls mouth, till it is burnt in a terrible
manner!
1t is scarcely necessary for rae to add that
in real cases %oflampas a slight scariication
(not cuts a half-inch deep will prove a re-
lief; but in adult animals, where the trouble
arises from digestive disturbance, this must
DO treated according to its nature. Again.
when horses lose their appetite from any
seriou disease, it is generally decided to be
Iampas, and So, whether there is inflamma-
ton of the lungs or liver, whether there is
fever or Il carious tooth, the first treatment
is apt to be the hot iron.
woLFT EETH.
These are small, supplemental teeth.
called from their position, pre-molars; they
are very common, but i'll a majority OF cases
drop out when the first pair of milk molars
are replaced by permanent teeth, or soon
after; they are, consequently, generally
seen in young horses. AS horses are quite
subject to superficial Inflammation of the
eyes while teeting, from the increased flow
OF blood to the head at this time, these teeth
have become associated with such iallam-
nation and are considered it's cause in the
South and West where big head" is preva-
lent, these teeth are also charged with orig
mating the bony engagements which con-
stitute this disease; as u consequence, horse
owners look upon woolf teeth as they
would upon a rattlesnake-as something to
be feared and destroyed as soon as posi-
BILE.
The removal of these%tceth causes little
pain when properly done with torceps, but
when hey are punched out by placing a
bar of iron against them and hitting them,
and hitting this with a heavy hammer, as is
usually the case, it not only causes severe
and uyeless pain, but it frightens the ami
mai and sometimes makes it vicious for life.
Wolf teeth have no effect OF the eyes, di-
rectly or Indirectly, nor Go they cause the
enlargenlents OF bones of the nose attribut-
cd to them. DR.. Horne, of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
who formerly believed that these teeth
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