Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
COMFORTS FOR BEASTS.
Recent Rebuilding and Additions 40
she Veterinary school mt
Stuttgart, Germany.

The veterinary high school of Stutt-
CART has been known for more than
80 wears as one of the best of it's
kind ON the continent, and the stead
lly increasing number of its stu
dents necessitated an entire re-
building of the premises and enlarge
ment of the institute. This work has
been going on for about two years,
and the new buildings have just been
completed and equipped.
One of the principal features OF
the institute is the new great operat.
ing hall for horses. This department
has been equipped with all the latest
improvements and best apparatus
and appliances. Where in former
years manual labor had to be ap-
piled under the greatest difficulties
to place the sick animals in con,
7enient positions for various opera.
tions, almost everything is nov don't
by ingenious machinery.
The horse department is quite az
institution in itself. Most promi
nent among the new divisions of this
department are the dark rooms, the
stables, the rooms for massage and
electrotherapy, the bath rooms, the
great laboratory, the operating
rooms, halls for examining sick
horses, the pharmacy and the de.
partment for the preparation of med
icines and bandages. The stables
both for sick and healthy animals
are the finest ever built. They are
heated and ventilated by electricity
and the water troughs are automat,
ically filled and empied. The walls
and the roof of the operating room
are of glass. For the construction O,
the walls Sierven's glass bricks were
used, while the roof consists of thick.
polished plate glass. The amount of
light thus obtained Is marvellous.
The bath room is equipped
throughout with machinery worked
either by electricity or hydraulic
power. If a horse is to be given
foot bath it is lifted by means of
an apparatus to a certain height,
kept IN such position that it cannot
move in any way and then lowered
into the bath.
All the carriages and wagons used
throughout the horse department
have wheels provided with india rub
ber tires, so as to afford easy and
silent transportation. The operating
table is of the folding system, and
worked by hydraulic power. Horses
to be operated upon, before being
placed upon the table, are given
dose of morphine, followed by the
administration of chloroform. The
table, with the animal fastened on,
is then placed in the desired posi-
ton by simply pulling lever. 1t
can be brought into any position, and
is said to be the most practical operat-
ing table ever constructed. The table
is an invention of Prof. Ernst, of the
Polytechnic high school of Stuttgart.
The examination of a horse affected
with toothache is made by means of
mouth opener, and the bad teeth are
extracted by instruments worked by
electricity.
The work of the Veterinary Insfi.
tute of Stuttgart is, however, by no
means confined to the treatment of
horses. Every domestic animal, from
a tiny canary bird to heavy milk
cow, is treated. Soon after the open
ing of the new infirmary poor fam
lily from a nearby village brought
a COW whose leg had been broken. The
cow represented the whole wealth of
the family. The leg was amputated
and wooden leg substituted. During
the first few days after the amputa-
tion the COW did not seem to be very
fond of its wooden leg, but she soon
became familiar with it, and in the
second week following the operation
she walked back to her old pasture
ground.
The Stuttgart veterinary high school
is a government institution; the lee
lures are not only attended by regu-
lar students, but also by numerous
army officers from all parts of the
world, and by great many farmers
and cattle raisers. The institute has
spacious reading rooms, first-class
departments of anat-
omy, pathology, physiology, cheInis-
try and physics.