Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-30
HIGHBRED HORSES.
Diseases Peculiar to the A.risto-
ora,lc Equines of the City.
Their Artificial Lives Are Conducive 10
Numerous Ailments-How the An
imals Are Treated by the
Veterinarians

Indigestion is the curse Of the city
horse as we'll as the city human being.
Probably half the horses in New York
ere afflicted more or less with indiges-
t!ol. In their natural state neither
horse nor man knew indigestion.
Whore man has gone he has taken the
horse with him, and the horse as we'll
as the man has become the victim OF
the diseases which are the penalties of
civilization. The milestones of modern
civilization are marked by the new dis
eases, and, later, their cures, discov-
cred by the modern physician. When
Russia sent la grippe to the western
world the horse got it as we'll as man,
and it showed the same contagious
tendencies in horse communities as in
men communities. Not long ago
horse in California 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 IL 1t was about TO split open.
So he did the next hest thing. He
shook his head as hard as he could.
and tried to raise havoc with every
thing within reach of his heels. After
he was tied firmly the surgeons found
out the trouble, and in few days
sent him back to his owner feeling
like an old gentleman who had just
had Turkish bath, no doubt to be-
come source of wonder among all OF
his horsey friends as being the first
nag who had ever recovered from
wheels III the head"
The modern horse doesn't get writer's
cramp, but the modern horse does get
racers heart" The racers heart ID
The most aristocratic of horsey atfec-
tions. A race horse always has larger
heart than coach horse or q truck
horse often he has twice as large a
heart. In racing or trying TO beat rec
ord the greatest possible exertion is re-
auired of the heart, which results in
enlargement. Sometimes the horse
will have his heart enlarged without
being affected; but often the result ID
II valvular disease, which is pretty GER
tain to take him off the track, II not
to kill him. The race horse Is hot
house production. anyway. He is like
a highly civilized man. Nancy Hanks,
Tor instance, is sort of Paderewski
IF the horse world. Your finely bred
morse wouldn't be worth his oats as u
farm horse. 1t must have a veterinary
urgeon at his heels every minute, and
10 prepared for a race with all the care
hat vlolinist uses in tuning his in
ttument Men who have big strings"
7 If horses have the entire service of
veterinary surgeon to supervise the
work. of the trainers, who play the
art of trained nurses to the highly
nervous beasts. Such things weren't
ecessary two hundred years ago, but
ne horse of to-day has great many
more nerves than his ancestor, and he
can also run great deal faster.
It's the horse from the country
which is suddenly set down in the
midst OF city life that soffers most.
he youth fresh from the quiet of
ouutry college town, who does twelve
ours of apprenticeship on news
aver as his first days experience in
ne art fic.al life of the city, feels no
yurse than the dumb beast, fresh from
as,ures green, which is driven few
mics up Fifth avenue hitched to
andau. The horse often becomes so
nervous that he does not digest his
evening" meal.
Pneumonia, however, is his greatest
enemy. When the wise stableman
goes home for the night he closes all
If the doors and windows, dcpriving
Lhe sta Die OF all ventilation. This ia
nard on lungs used to fresh country
air. When the horse is taken out he
gets chill and pneumonia ensues.
lncn the poor fellow sits down on his
lunches, spreads his feet wide apart
80 give his lungs room, breathes from
.is abdomen and suffers like a hero.
When he convalesccs he is the
Aungriest horse in town. He is fed on
milk punches and eggs, aud he de-
velopes such great liking for them
tnat he will follow the one who feeds
him about the stable, using all of the
horse methods of coaxing at his COM
mand. In this, too, he is like man.
Once he gets taste for whisky he
can't get enough OF it, Ii he had his
way he would become an inebriate,
but will not allow his horse the Same
privilege.
There's 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
forses are strapped for operations. A
wise man who does the doctoring told
the reporter all of the things he is tell
ing you, and many more.
This hospital, which is the annex Of
college, is always experimenting on
horses that are past curing except by
experimenting. 1t also manufactures
anti-toxine for the board of health,
and possesses famous No :, which orig
inally cost seven dollars. No. z has
been at the point Of death dozen
times, but is. still alive and covered
with scars where his blood has been
drawn to save the life OF his young
countrymen who get the diphtheria.
He won fame in two hemispheres in
stead of the offal cart, because he is q