233 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



importance of pure, fi-esh air, in the maintenance of health, 

 and the prevention of disease, in both man and beast. 

 However necessary pure air is in health, it is still more so 

 to an animal when sick from fever and disease ; and indeed 

 th^re are diseases in which no treatment can or will be 

 guccessful, no matter how skilfully directed, without pure, 

 fresh air and cold water to drink. Show me a badly 

 ventilated stable or barn, and I will show you in the 

 spring of each year horses fevered and diseased. (See 

 Disinfectants.) Coughs, colds, lung fever, influenza, 

 grease, scratches, farcy and glanders, are the results of bad 

 ventilation. 



Who has not heard with horror of the Black Hole at 

 Calcutta, in which one hundred and forty-six men were 

 confined for a few hours without ventilation, and only 

 twenty-three survived the short confinement. Horses con- 

 fined only for a few hours without ventilation, as was the 

 case in two military expeditions sent out by England — one 

 to Quiberon, and the other to Varna — in which the hatches 

 of the ships were put down, and only for a short time, 

 but sufficiently long to produce glanders in almost every 

 horse. Hence, it will be perceived that, without good 

 ventilation, a high standard of general health cannot be 

 maintained very long. 



Veterinary Biography. — The increased facilities for 

 receiving and transmitting intelligence in all parts of the 

 world, make it desirable in a book, designed, as this is, for 

 the non-professional reader, that something should be said 

 of the persons, whose opinions have had some weight, con- 

 cerning the cause, treatment and prevention of diseases of 

 stock, throughout the world. The history of veterinary 

 medicine, has a claim to greater antiquity even than tha-^ 

 of domestic medicine, which few will denyj or else wny 



