| Show SYMPTOMS OF DISORDERS AMONG HORSES prepared by the united states department of 0 agrico agriculture ure the condition of a sick norse horse Is is shown to a certain extent by the appearance pe of the mucous membranes for example when the animal is anemic as a result of disease or of inappropriate prop feed the mucous membranes become pule pale tills change in the mucous membranes can be seen most readily ily in the lining of the eyelids and in ili the lining of the nostril paleness ess means weak circulation or poor blood increased redness occurs in painful conditions excitement and following severe severa exertion in fevers there is au an increased redness in the mucous membrane and tills this continues so ion long as 04 the fever lasts in some diseases rod red spots or streaks form in the mucous membrane this usually indicates an infectious disease of considerable severity and occurs in blood poisoning in fever the skin becomes dry the heir has a harsh feel that Is quite different from the condition observed in health and from the fact of its being so dry the individual heirs hairs do not adhere to one another they stand apart nod the animal has what Is known aa a staring coat when during a fever sweating occurs it Is usually an indication that the crisis Is passed sometimes sweating Is an indication of rain pain A horse with lockjaw or sweats profusely horses sweet sweat freely nhen there Is a serious impediment to respiration they sweat under excitement and of course from the well known physiological causes of heal and work local sweating or sweating of a restricted area of the body denotes borne bome kind ot of nerve interference swellings ot of the skin usually come from wounds or other ex tenial causes causes there are how however evera a number of condl condi A t abife s ev i wy w f x i i Ss A 2 layl Ly y A terl te rl f a 4 X wy W y s FINE TYPE OF BELGIAN STALLION when the liver Is deranged and does riot operate or when the red blood cor muscles are broken down as in serious cases of influenza there Is a yellow NOsh ish discoloration of the mucous membrane the mucous mem brances become bluish or blue in lilly any serious disease of the respiratory tract as pneumonia and in heart failure it there Is fever the temperature of the skin Is likely to be increased sometimes however as a result of poor circulation and irregular distribution of the blood the body may li be warmer armer n than normal while the legs and cars may be cold when the gen I 1 yearling clydesdale eral surface of the body becomes cold it Is evidence of a chill or that the heart is weak and the animal is on the verge of collapse skin of healthy horse the skin is moist to a certain degree at all times in a healthy horse this moisture is not in the form of a perceptible sweet sweat but it Is enough to keep the skin pliable and to cause the nair to have a soft healthy feel in some chronic diseased conditions and eions in which the swelling of the skin Is a symptom of a derangement of some other martof the body for example there Is the veil mell known stocking or swelling of the legs about the fetlock joints lo in influenza there is the soft swelling of the hind legs that occurs so often in draft horses when standing still and that comes from previous inflammation or from insufficient heart power dropsy of the skin sidn may occur beneath the chest or abdomen from weak heart or from chronic collection of fluid in the chest or abdomen in ana sarea or hemor large soft swellings appear on any part of the skin but usually on the legs side of the body and about the head importance of wounds wounds of the skin may be of importance in the diagnosis of internal disease wounds over the bony aromi nerices as the point of he hip the point of the shoulder and the greatest convexity of the ribs occur when a horse Is unable to stand for a long time and through throng i continually lying upon his side has shut oil off the alie circulation to the portion of the skin that covers parts of the body that carry the greatest weight and in this way has caused them to mortify little round soft swellings occur on the skin and may be scattered freely over the surface of the body when the horse Is afflicted with carla similar eruptions but distributed tri buted less generally about the size of a silver dollar may occur as a symptom of dour lne or colt distemper ilard hard lumps from which radiate welt like swellings of the occur in glanders and blister like crup eruptions occur around the mouth and casteras pasterns pa pas sterns teras in hor |
