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nier of 1876, the clinic was restricted as much as possible on ac- 

 count of the absence of students, yet there were forty horses and 

 twenty dogs in the hospital. A free clinic is also held daily at the 

 school, and is visited by fifty or sixty jDatients each day. The sta- 

 bles have room for about fifty horses, and the dog-hospital accom- 

 modates the same number of patients. The school is provided 

 with a special room for operations, with raised steps, arranged in 

 a semicircle, for the students to stand upon. The pharmacy dis- 

 penses the medicines used at the schools, and gives abundant op- 

 portunity for the students to become expert in the knowledge and 

 preparation of drugs. The stables are excellently arranged in the 

 form of a horseshoe, the operating saloon being the center or toe ; 

 two forges also join it, one on each side, the full clinic being held 

 in the space between the wings. The collection of surgical imple- 

 ments at this school is very complete and well arranged. The 

 school fails in not having the ambulatory clinic, common to the Ger- 

 man schools, by which students obtain an acquaintance with much 

 outside, especially herd practice. This is in a measure made up for 

 by the visits which the French students make to the governmental 

 model farms in the vicinity of the schools. The two rooms devoted 

 to the practice of dissection are of middling size, high, and well 

 lighted and ventilated. The anatomical lectures are held in one of 

 these rooms, and there is an amphitheatre for the students to stand 

 upon. Between these rooms is the room of the professor, overlook- 

 ing both by means of windows. The students at Alfort belonging 

 to the first and third sessions have separate rooms for anatomical 

 practice, and also have different lectures. Those of the first session 

 hear lectures upon osteology, syndesmology, and myology, and those 

 of the third the remaining parts of anatomy. The practice of anat- 

 omy by the students of the first session is not begun until they have 

 heard lectures on osteology, the dissection practice being limited to 

 muscles and ligaments. The contents of abdominal, thoracic, and 

 cranial cavities are passed to the students of the third session. 

 The students of each class are forbidden to visit the rooms of the 

 other. Both classes are divided into sections of twelve to fifteen 

 students, half of the students of the first and third classes practicing 

 dissection for one week, when not attending lectures, and then the 

 other half, and so on alternately during the winter months. Each 

 section has at its disposition one cadaver, and they are distributed 

 to students of each section as above mentioned. During the week 

 eight cadavers are generally given to the students, and one is used 

 by the professor. Besides these, some twelve to fifteen cattle are 



