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and pest spot ; while in other locations, favorable to the free and full play 
of vital operations, the favoured ones seem to enjoy a remarkable immunity 
from the prevailing disease, or epizootic. 
“ Stablemen and husbandmen are often led to remark, that when they 
keep but few animals, disease and death, except in cases of accident or old 
age, are quite rare, but so soon as they crowded the same, sickness and death 
were the consequences. 
“ In view of supporting this theory, we may be permitted to remark that 
ship and jail fevers may be manufactured ad libitum , at any time when a 
large number of persons are congregated together in a given space ; no pro- 
vision having been made for the admission of pure air. The unfortunate 
prisoners in the Black Hole of Calcutta are an example, and the mortality 
occurring on board our emigrant ships furnishes another illustration. 
“ A number of horses were once shipped from England to Spain, and on 
the passage, a violent gale arising, it became necessary to batten down the 
hatchway ; the consequence was that most of them ultimately died of either 
glanders or farcy. 
“We contend therefore that the active or morbid germ of disease enters 
the living citadel through the pulmonary tissue, in an insidious manner ; 
and therefore much oftener than the generality of men would be likely to 
realise. Therefore it is a matter of vital importance that attention be paid 
to the ventilation of our stables. 
“ If proper sanitary regulations were established, and fully carried out in 
all our stables, glanders and other infectious diseases would be exceedingly 
rare ; they are so, among horses free from the control of man ; whose stalls 
are broad, as from ocean to ocean, their height ranging from earth to regions 
above ; the space pervaded by a pure atmosphere concocted by the Great 
Chemist, pure as the pearly drops, and refreshing as the morning zephyr. 
In such locations death hath no terrors nor disease any victims. 
Therefore we entreat husbandmen to ventilate their stables, and thus pre- 
vent unnecessary disease. 
The above was intended for the last month’s number of 
our Journal, but press of matter prevented its insertion. 
Since then we have received Nos. 2 and 3 of the American 
Veterinarij Journal , in which we are pleased to see a marked 
improvement. 
