The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-04-16
VENTILATED CHAMBERS.


VENTILATED CHAMBERS.
The Importance Of well ventilated rooms
cannot bc too strongly urged upon tho attcn-
dants of the sick-who too often regard
the presence of a little fresh air as not
of the most beneficial tendency, and close
the windows and doors with as much care
as if the deadly Simeon was raging with
out! 4 free circulation of air is not only
beneficial to persons laboring under severe
attacks Of illness, but is absolutely ncces-
sary for the preservation Of the health of
those who lingcr by the bedside of a dis.
eascd friend. 1t is said by medical men
that there is no kind of malaria moro per-
nicious and fatal in its effects than the
poisonous atmosphere of an unvcntilatc,l
chamber, when person is suffering from
tho violent attack of an acute disease
Here often lies the mystery of what is called
the co"tuyiousness of disease.
a celebrated English physician, (Dr.
Smith, on fevcr0 says that the room of Il
fever-patient in small and heated apart
ment, in populous city, with no circula-
tion of fresh air, is perfectly analogous to
stagnant pool in Ethiopia, full of the bo-
dies of dead locusts. Nature, with her
burning sun, her stilled and pent up wind,
her stagnant and teeming marsh, manuf,c-
lures plague on large and fearful scale :;
poverty in her hut, covered with rags, sur
rounded with filth, striving with all her might
to keep out the puro air, and to increase
the heat, initiates nature but too successfully.
The process and the product are the same
the only difference is the magnitude of
the result Pcnury and ignorance can thus
at any time, in any place, create mortal
plague.-Olve Branch.
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Health Of Anima!s.-To keep animals
in health, is moro important than to cure
sick ones, and for this purpose few lead
ing rules should be always observed, and
which cannot be out of place horc.
1. Always feed regularly as to timo and
quantity. Many animals are made sick by
starving at one time, stufling at another
Especially never overfeed.
2, The same rule must bo observed with
watering-and let the water be pure.
8. Never overwork an animal-rcgular
and moderate exercise will enable work.
ing animal to do more the year through,
by all odds, than any hurried driving at
one time, and resting and overlooking at
another-apd be infinitely less liable to dis
ease.
4. Allow regular supply of salt-it is
useful but an observance of the preccd.
ing rules without salt will bo incompara-
lively better than their infraction with it,
5. Never feed musty or bad food. If
musty fodder must be used pass it through
rapid cutter, and moiston, salt and meal
it.
9. Avoid unwholesome and poisonous
plants In pastures and In hay,
z. All changes of food must bo gradual,
If from hay to grass, let the grazing bo but
ono hour the first day, two hours the next,
three bours tho next, &c. The same eau
tion mnst be carefully observed in begin
ming to feed with roots, grain &c.
8. Be careful that animals always haye
sufficient exercise, and plenty Of pure, fresl,
air. Stables must be we'll ventilated.
0, Lastly, and by no means least, let
strict cleanliness be observed. All animals.
even pigs, Kept clean and carriod, are found
to maintain THEN; flesh better, or fatten fas.
ter, than when dirty and neglected-and
cleanliness is more important to health than
for flesh. HomesteQd, u
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