IMPOETANCE OF VENTILATING STABLES, 



IN VIEW OF PREVENTING DISEASE. 



" Prevention is better than Cure." 



It was the intention of the Creator, that all animals, so long as 

 they were permitted to exercise their natm-al instincts, and thus 

 comply with the requirements of physiology — the science of life — 

 should enjoy health and long life. Hence a great amount of disease 

 and death results from the evils of domestication. 



One of the conditions which physiology imposes, in order that 

 a horse shall enjoy health, is, that the atmosphere at all times, and 

 under all circumstances, shall be uncontaminated, so that the blood 

 shall be decarbonized and purified of the defiling elements acquired 

 in the course of circulation. 



Let the reader understand that the lungs are something like a 

 sponge, elastic, composed of a myriad of cells. ^In the former, how- 

 ever, these cells have a vast internal surface, communicating with 

 each other up to their common origin, the bronchial tubes and wind- 

 pipe. On their internal surface we find a delicate yet highly impor- 

 tant membrane permeable to the atmosphere; in extent, itls supposed 

 to occupy a square surface equal to that of the external body. In 

 contact with this membrane comes the atmosphere. If jiure, zephyr- 

 like, it fans into healthful blaze the flame of life, upheaving from the 

 living Vesuvius arid lava, in the form of corbonic acid gas, almost 

 as destructive to animality as that issuing from its great prototype 

 proves to vegetation. The stable atmosphere being pure, and the 

 lungs in working order, the blood is well arterialized, capable of 

 supplying the waste of the animal machine, and renovating its 

 tissues. 



On the other hand, should the atmosphere be impure, it fails to 

 vitalize the blood ; the latter is i;nfit for the purpose of nutririon, and 

 may be considered a non-supporter of vitality. Hence the need of 

 pure air, the breath of life. 



Lut are horses always furnished with pure air? Let the owners 

 of un ventilated, crowded, filthy, down-cellar and low-roofed stables 

 answer. 



Let those who have stables in the region of swamps, sewers, and 

 stagnant pools of water answer. 



In ^ch locations disease and death run riot, and the noble com- 

 panion of man, instead of being within the ramparts of the science 

 of life, is on the margin of death's domain, lie may exist for seve- 



