Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-23
HORSES GET INSANE.
rorrid Weather Causes Them to
Perform Strange Antics.
Chicago Physician Tells How the
Animals Act When Overcome
by the Intense Heat of
summer.

summer.
One of the effects of hot weather
which has been especially noticeable
)f late, according to veterinarians, has
been the increase of insanity among
lorses. Insanity among horses?"
one is inclined to ask. incredulously,
out the veterinarians declare that one
toring" that the general public does
lot know is that horses. like men,
often go insane, and do unaccountably
strange things, says the Chicago Trib-
;ne.
| One day horse belonging to an ice
,ream company in South Chicago went
;io!ently insane while attached to a
wagon. 1t was a frightfully hot day,
ind the horse had been driven hard.
it was standing still when suddenly,
S.thout warning. it went charging
lown the street full tilt. swinging the
wagon from side to side. and finally
S"ecking it and running until ex-
lausted.
THAT is not an unusual case" said
DR.. Matthew H. McKillip. Horses
frequently go mad from heat. The
:eally strange cases are those in which
A horse goes crazy from some organic
trouble. In that they are like men.
| had a horse brought to me not
week ago for examination which was
typical of certain form of the
trouble. The poor beast belonged to
a prominent South side family which
had recently bought him. The owner
complained to me that it took the
horse an hour to go block
watched it travel, and recognized the
trouble at once. 1t was simply de-
mcnted. Instead of trotting straight
ahead it rocked up and down like
rocking horse at sort of cumbrous
y@"op. hardly making any progress,
End seeming not to understand any-
Ming that was said to it. ] was as
.u:ed that not long before the horse
had been willing worker, and had
lead considerable speed. Yet when I
'aw it it would not trot nor walk, but
just rocked along. | told the owner
1t once that the horse was crazy and
'Grld not he cured, but that did not
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he next, and within an hour after it
got back to its stable the horse died.
"a horse is not just like man in
the way it goes crazy. The animal
lacks the reasoning faculty, and as
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tested tbrougb n deranromen+'o of hah-
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strdied II clnsely ord fo,,rd +bo+ +ho
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be,d Apotber coso 7 l,ro,,. ,,.o, o,.
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,aft uuless tbe riobt roir ,vas boI5
hard II could only he driven b,. ho,dI
no that rein bv main strenotb all
the fine II gr,duolI,, rot worse o,d
AZ 1ost tho borse bad 60 ho l.i,Iod
"Sometimes insanity in borsos tol,as
tbe violent form so,na,yb,t 1il.a +ho.
If tbe horse in Soutb Cbicago
horse has become bardar and bordar
In dr;ye will +oko +ha li+ IA i,s +a,tt
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