The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26
HORSES 1--we roo HIGH.
Life in the City Gives Them Indi-
EestfOu.
From the New York prns.

'ls max q the norhcH IN New YORK are
afflicted more or less with Indigestion. In
their natural state neither horse nor man
knew indigestion. Where man has gone
he has taken the horse with him, and the
horse as well as the man has become the
victim OF the diseases which ars the penal
Ties OF civilization. The nlilestones of mod
efn civilization are marked by the new dis
eases and, later, their cures, discovered
BY the modern physician. When Russia
sent la grippe TO the western world the
horse got 1t as well as man. and it showed
the same contagious tendencies in horse
communities as In men communities. Not
long ago California horse got the brain
fever The surgeons at first thought that
there was something the matter with his
ear.
As he couldn't speak, he couldn't tell
the surgeons that his poor old head felt
as II il was about TO split open. So he did
the next best thing. He shook his head
as hard as he could and tried 10 raise hav-
oo with everything within reach OF his
heels. After he was tied firmly the sur
geons found out the trohDle and in few
days sent him back 20 his owner feeling
like an old gentleman who has just had a
Turkish bath, no doubt to become a source
or wonder among all of his horsey friends
as being the first nag who had ever recov-
cred from wheels In the head"
Probably many horses before him had
had brain fever, but nobody understood
what was the matter with the beast, and
accordingly shot him after calling him a
quack horse doctor" In the last few
years veterinary medical science has made
wonderful strides. Whenever an Nj. ID.
discovers a new disease in man the vet
Urinary straightway discovers a new dis
ease in horses. In the old days every dis
ease Of the horse was named a collie
The modern horse doesn't get writer's
cramp, but the modern horse does get
racers heart" The racers heart" is
the most aristocratic of horsey affections
race horse always has a larger heart
than coach horse or a truck horse; often
he has twice as large a hearr. In racing or
trying to beat a record the greatest posi-
BILE exertion is required of the heart, which
results in enlargement Sometimes the
horse vii have his heart enlarged without
being affected; but often the result is a
valvular disease which is pretty certain
to take him off the track If not to kill
him. The race horse Is a hot house pro-
duction, anyway. He is like a highly civ
ilzed man. Nanck Hanks. for instance,
is a sort of paderewski of the horse world
Your finely bred horse wouldn't be worth
his oats as farm horse. 1t must have
veterinary surgeon al its heels every min
ute and is prepared for a race with all the
instrument. Men who have big strings"
Of horses have the entire service of vet
Urinary surgeon to supervise the work OF
the trainers, who play the part of trained
nurses to the highly nervous beasts Such
things weren't necessary 200 years ago,
but the horse of to-day has great many
more nerves than his ancestor, and he can
also run a great deal ftister.
The highly civilized horse Is troubled
with nearly all of the nervous diseases
which afflict civilized man and were un-
known TO the uncivilized man and the un-
civilized horse, except that he doesn't
imagine that he is sick, which occurs
among human beings who want an excuse
for going to Europe or Hot Springs, or
have nothing to do except to think that
they are sick. The modern horse has nerv-
Gus prostration and spinal meningitis, as
well as Bright's disease and appendicitis.
It's the horse from the country Which Is
suddenly set down in the midst of city life
that suffers most. The youth fresh from
the quiet of a country college town, who
does twelve hours of apprenticeship on a
newspaper as his first days experience in
the artificial life of the city, feels no worse
than the dumb beast, fresh from pastures
green which Is driven few miles up Fifth
avenue hitched to a landau. The horse of
ten becomes so nervous that he does not
digest his evening meal.
Pneumonia, however, is his greatest enes
my. When the wise stableman goes home
for the night he closes all Of the doors and
windows depriving the stable of all venti-
lation. This is hard on lungs used to fresh
country air. When the horse is taken out
he gets a chill and pneumonia ensues.
Then the poor fellow sits down on his
launches, spreads his feet wide apart to
give his lungs room, breathes from his
abdomen and suffers like hero
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horse in town. He is fed on milk punches
and eggs, and he develops such great lik-
ing for them that he win follow the one
who feeds him about the stable, using all
OF the horse methods OF coaxing al his
command In this, too, he is like man.
Once he gets a taste for whisky he can't
get enough of 1t. II he had his way he
would become an inebriate. Man becomes
an inebriate, but win not allow his horse
the same privilege.
There's a hospital for horses up town
where horses are treated for all of the
diseases in the category and which has a
great table to which horses are strapped
for operations. A wise man who does the
doctorlng told the reporter all of the things
he is telling you, and many more.
This hospital, which is the annex Of
college, is always experimenting on horses
that are past curing except by experiment
ing It also manufactures anti-toxine for
the board Of health, and possesses famous
No. 7, which originally cost 81. No. has
been at the point of death dozen times.
but is still alive and covered with sears
where his blood has been drawn to save
the lives of his young countrymen who get
the diphtheria. He won fame in two hemis
spheres instead of the offal cart, because
he is a veritable anti-toxine genius, with
out rival anywhere in the world.
Just now the doctors at the hospital are
experimenting with tetanine, which Is to
lockjaw Cor tetanus) what anti-toxine is to
diphtheria A fine specimen OF lockJaw
came in the other day; but before they
could inject any tetanine into him he was
dead. one horse has been cured In France.
An Italian was the first to discover te-
famine. The Italians and the Germans are
the greatest masters Of the theory of
veterinary science. and the English and
Americans are the best practitioners.
The Lesson Spoiled.
A thoughtful Bible student who believed
he might possibly be Of some assistance
Is v,afees0n Sunday school. undertook 10