Show Ih M f 4 47 7 f p 1 r 1 t e eJ J r- r rI How Science Now Cures the Diseases of Horses Cats I and Dogs and Mends Their C c chorse How chloroform L II administered to a fy Broken hones or Tendons as ason horse borse on the after fter new it tilting baa liaa been operating stretched table out outon t tf f e ee e t It alias oft tetra take a lull quart of the and fu s an anaesthetic to put m an animal Tenderly as of this iris ize asleep leep 1 r sw t a ad x t d r if They here I I z Ia i 6 r rr r Human kj ril o I jl It Its iJ ee s v 6 t t j Patients uti 4 0 J x et a r lit 1 R j wt r F e A AO I h rY Nye 1 r yr l t s 4 t Iu r rp Sr b r n I 1 ft x iV I on x Fk 3 o y f R p 4 t NJ k Lh r 4 w wF F M A I R Rf f gyp n W 7 1 ts s sr r t tK K s F WK 1 r pl tE v 4 Ic J t r 1 w e ot S A Ar t P Pv v K Kiwa iwa t t ti i d r 7 Y Yi i a aE aY E Y a ar r 4 4 s LL t 1 AJ l 4 1 3 4 i d y r i u pys r e eu 3 w f l o te v d o- o oj ii IJ 4 6 m r tar i rY 1 Q r F MM S 4 j t y x f w A r jy y I II t ht ailis I i t a t 1 3 0 s z 4 that will ir s y t r I 1 1 ay f f fa a r i in n g N e i t 4 4 Y t uy a 3 Lr 4 v I e s NiiA it r r a a a f f P 9 ak k I 1 h K r vw 7 I v vv I v Mt v Mrs Mra Sidmon McHIe the wealthy New York woman who has ha willed her whole fortune to found a hospital hopital for animal animals OT long ago one of the most val Il NOT Q val val-J I horses in America known and by thousands of horse borse show devotees fell in carrYing her owner over a particularly dIfficult lump jump during an early run across cross country The rider an expert horseman quickly got to hi his hie feet and found his mount having trouble getting I 1 Up A little investigation showed that the sharp point of a rock had slashed one of the tho animals animal's forelegs cuttin cutting a Colonel tendon Colonel Frank crank Kelso Hyatt presIdent of the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester Pa the owner of the horse was almost heartbroken He lie wished ho had taken some other mount than the famous Princess Pat winner of innumerable innumerable merable blue ribbons ribbon He thought the tho Injury irreparable and felt sure that the horse could eoula never DeHr jump or gallop again never go the wide wido assortment of feats and paces that that had mado her such sucha a favorite Nevertheless he determined to leave leavo nothing undone to cave Princess Pat He walked the limping animal Lack to her beT stall and telephoned d to the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylva Pennsylvania nia To Colonel Hyatts Hyatt's surprise and delight Dr Louts Louis A Klein dean of the school of veterinary medicine held out 4 consIderable hope for the tho injured mare WIth Dr John W Adams chief operating ing mil surgeon at the animal hospital con con- conducted con conducted ducted by the university be ho motored down to Chester ChesterA A few hours later Princess Pat Won Won- Wondering won Bering dering what It if was all about was rock rock- ing comfortably ina a sort of leather hammock sus- sus suspended sus suspended in a five five- ton five ton truck on her herway herway herway way to the hos hospital petal There she was eased cased into a astall astall astall stall and gIVen exactly the same samo kind of pre oper oper atlon medical at attention that is 18 gIVen a human being The doc dec doctors tors so to speak felt her pulse lis- lis listened Ifs lis listened to her heart heartbeats heartbeats heartbeats beats and gene genel ally genei-ally ally got a good goodline goodline goodline line on her physical cal condition They found It fir yN y ev evi evI i I p a aN av y N Y v y 17 1 s 2 Yn f d F r NM r H i 1 first class except for the broken tendon The next morning Princess Pat was walked into a huge huga room and induced to stand beside something g t that at looked like the wall of a box stall except that it stood out in the middle mIddle- of the tho he floor and wasa was made mode of iron Also there was ft a projection at one end near tho top which might have been put there to keep Princess Pat from looking around the tho end of the tho Walt wall alt Expert grooms slipped clipped a number of straps and slings over the sleek body and then another groom thrust over her head a canvas bag More strops were slipped skipped around the am animals animal's mals mal's foot foet until she was tightly bound to the wall At that point Princess Pat realized I 1 t k kv i v a M Another test teat for tuberculosis being applied to the eye of ofa a horse Preparing a dog for a delicate delicato surgical opera opera- operation operation operation tion that will enable it to win blue ribbons for many years moro more that something was happening The Tha wall began to tilt She tried naturally to retain rotam her footing but found herself hersel tightly bound Slowly Iy and gently the wall all rolled over and in two minutes the th mare mue was as on her side breathing easil and no longer struggling In a moment more a sweet and pun pungent gent smell assailed her nostrils She dIdn't understand it and she just justas as a human being does docs on being given chloroform But after about a aquart aquart aquart quart of ol the liquid had been administered to her tho the Princess was thoroughly under its influence Then rhen began the operation Just as it would have begun on a human being except that the knives and other thing used were all larger Also the th attend attending ing nurses nurse were men In a ring around the operating surgeon stood a group of students They saw Dr Adams skill skill- skillfully skillfully fully lay bare the ends of the tendon They saw an attendant hand hIm a jar with the top removed From this he took an object that looked like a piece of thick white string It was vas a tendon saved from a living but Injured animal for just lust such a purpose In a trice ho he had stitched it to the broken ends which had been two Inches apart part It was necessary to draw them tightly together as a loose tendon would be of no more value than a broken one Meantime an anaesthetist an stood at the head hoad of the horse and continued to admin admin- administer ister ieter chloroform until the most Important part of the operation was over It took but a few seconds to stitch up tho the wound and to apply the sterilized bandages Then Thena a 8 a truck was wan rolled up to the operating table It was only about half the tables table's height The table was as tIlted slowly lowly the s straps were unfastened and Princess Pat wa was slid gently to the truck This was rolled to a box stall 1 There the truck was vas tilted and the mareI mare maro I r was slid to the floor floor Then e went away but one ono attendant ard and when the animal came cut of the chloroform j ho he helped her to her feet feat Within two weeks nocks the mare war wai wa back in pasture all the wounds hav hay havIng haying having ing healed Her limp very noticeable at first gradually disappeared And one day when hen Colonel Hyatt called to her Princess Pat gracefully and easily vaulted a low hedge and trotted up to him with no sign whatever of a limp It Is Isnow isnow isnow now expected that within a short time she will bo be as sound as ever eier e er This was the first operatIon ever performed on a horse for forthe forthe forthe the restoration of a broken tendon but it is only one of many miracles veterinary nary medicine and stir stir- sur surgery gery fiery are performing 01 ming for animals whose sufferings until a few years ago could have been ended only by putting them to toS death The operation war wai wa made possible b by byi i Dr Adams's recen recent invention of a tiltIng tilt tilt tilt- A Ing lne operating table A a for horse horses and other t large animals The Theone The Theone S one used in mending Princess Pats Pat's ten pvc don Is the only one ona f of its kind in the world The work of the hospItal of course s sis Is not confined to P animals Every r morning there is a long procession o of fi men women and children yr is bringing pets for treat treat- treatment ment meat Most of them are arc dogs r and cats but the hospital has treated guinea pigs chIckens parrots monkeys canaries a goose a pigeon a II turkey sheep and anda a II goat The number of small animals treated in a recent lecent year including dogs doge and cats was Of that number 2929 had to ba bo needed operatIons put to bed and many of varying character The hospital is doing a 0 humanitarian work for animals probably without par par- parallel parallel anywhere else in m tho the world Here are repaired the injuries that formerly made it necessary to kill animals animal As a result the average lifetime of pets and other domes domestic le animals has been Im Immeasurably measurably lengthened Generally speaking animals have In one form or another every disease that man suffers utTers from and much the same methods are used in the treatment of them The Tho hospital recently treated three dogs for concussion of the tho brain brainand brainand brainand and sent them all back to their owners well welland and end strong again agam Broken bones are numerous and are easily repaired by the new methods the up to vet vet- veterinary surgeons use Among the unusual C cases ses brought to the hospitals at different times are lire civet cats better known as skunks s skunks Iv Every once m in a while some one catches one of thoe the tho e little animals and decides to keep it for a apet apet apet pet Now a skunks skunk's method of protectIon makes it a rather unpleasant thing to have around the house But Dut this difficulty difficulty culty can be bo easily overcome at the hos- hos hospital hos hospital pital by the removal of the scent glands y Dr Klein head bend of the tho Institution is authorIty for the statement that many tunny of the tho ailments which ho he and Ms iris asso elates are re called exiled on to treat are the reo re- re result suIt sult of carelessness A largo large number of ailments come from defects of dIet diet eIther from giving animals the wrong foods or too much of the right ones And AndIn Andin Andin In this connection Dr Klein Klem has made some discoveries eries about the A which haze have sense enough to know when to stop atop eating You could put fifteen mules into a corral and give them enough food for just that number he says and you OU would be fairly sure that every mule would get enough But Dut if you tried that with horses hones one or more of them would be gorged and somo some would be underfed The horse doesn't know when hen to stop eating The mule nearly always does docs The same saire is true of cats We get few cases of trouble caused by over overeating eating on the part of cats Dogs haven't as much sense in this respect They are inclined to gorge when they get a chance However the main mam diet dIfficulty wIth dog dogs doge is due to the belief on the tho part of their their owners that meat will give them distemper or cause fits The fact IS that the dog is ii a 11 carnivorous animal Meat is his natural food Too much of It is not good for him but meat in rea son will son will keep him in m better health than anything else The most deadly disease horses suf suffer fer far from is easily easily preventable presentable It is called and is a sort of paralysis sis sie generally of the hind l legs gs but often attacking the forelegs too It is caused by leaving a horse horae standing in the sta stable ble for several days when be he has been 4 accustomed to activity and feeding hIm during curing that period the same rations he got when hen he was Vas burning up energy Out of fifty tifty cases of handled han han- handled handled by the hospital last year we suc sue succeeded succeeded seeded in m curing twenty three The cure IS po possible nib Ie if v we e get the case early and If there is not too much handling But the trouble is that the paralysis makes Itself known kno generally a few bw Ow hours after the horse Is le taken out again Then he be beIs heis heis Is taken back to his stable table and it may maybe maybe maybe be two or three days before the aid of ofa ofa ofa a veterinary is summoned According to Dr Klein there is no such thing as a definite average length of life for animals In other words it cannot be said with finality that should live t twenty enty years ears a II cat fifteen and a dog twelve which are merely ran ran- random random dom figures It all depends on the early care par particularly in tho the case of large animals he says A horse that is not compelled to work during its that is prop properly erly fed and e and developed has haa a bettor better chance for long life The hospital maintains in order order that students may learn how to treat farm animals an ambulatory clinic which is m in all respects a traveling hospital I It moves around in m the country adjacent to Philadelphia visiting farms and treat treating ing mg all manner of barnyard creatures Horses and other largo large animals whIch are suffering and cannot be cured ar are shot A special apparatus has been de- de designed de designed signed for that purpose It is placed agaInst the forehead of tho horse and when a pin Im is touched sends a long slen slender der bullet ploughing through his brain All the familiar anesthetics anaesthetics are uses In performing operations Ether cannot be used for horses since it merely ex excites cites them It is used for smaller ani animals mals in combination with chloroform I ir r I U D J |