New System of Ventilation (1867)
by Henry Albert Gouge (9780217518048)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VENTILATION OF STABLES HORSES SICKEN AND DIE FKOM BAD AIR . ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS VARNISH OF CARRIAGES DESTROYED COW STABLES POISONOUS MILK STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR DOREMTJS. The ventilation of stables intended for the accommodation of our domestic animals, and especially the horse, is a matter of very great importance. It is claimed by those who have had ample experience, that there are more horses dying annually from imperfect ventilation than all other causes combined. Bad air is known to produce blindness in horses, which is becoming very prevalent, espepially in New-York City, where horses are often crowded together in very small stables. A horse is frequently valued at five or ten thousand dollars, and sometimes more, and it is surprising that the owner of so valuable and noble an animal should ever endanger its health or Kfe for the want of proper ventilation, which would cost but a trifling comparative sum. A horse, with its large, vigorous lungs, requires a large amount of fresh air, which it is impossible for it to obtain in a close or illy ventilated stable, especially when several animals are crowded together in a small space. The horse then begins to droop and show signs of disease; his ears grow cold; his eyes lose their brilliancy, and finally his sight becomes impaired; his step becomes less firm and elastic; and when he is taken from the stable, it is not until he has had time to take in copious draughts of pure, fresh air, that he begins to brighten up or manifest his usual vigor and animation. A horse is almost as susceptible to the influence of fresh air as a human being is to that of laughing gas, and in proportion as he is deprived of it, in that proportion will his health and usefulness be impaired, even though his life may not be destroyed. A bro...

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