4 A CONCISE HISTORY 



veterinary seminary at Lyons, having the celebrated Bour- 

 gelat for its professor : his medical and anatomical works 

 were numerous, and are well known. In 1766, a second 

 public school was opened at Alfort, near Charenton, in the 

 neighbourhood of Paris, and others subsequently at Stras- 

 burgh and Montpellier : establishments of the same kind 

 have likewise since been organized in almost every European 

 country, as Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dresden, Leipsic, 

 Prague, Munich, London, Hanover, Naples, &c. &c. In 

 Russia, also, a veterinary school was founded, over which 

 Mr. Blaine was invited to preside. 



As a contemporary with Bourgelat lived the elder La 

 Fosse, a name that will ever be respected in the annals of 

 veterinary medicine. La Fosse made numerous improve- 

 ments and discoveries, which he usually comniunicated in 

 the form of memoirs to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 

 Paris. In 1754, he had collected these into one volume, 

 which w^as quickly translated into other languages, and 

 diffused over Europe. 



The French revolution for some time disturbed the 

 course of veterinary improvement ; but the calm which 

 succeeded employed the talents of many eminent veteri- 

 narians ; and the names of Chabert, Flandrin, Gilbert, 

 Vicq-D'Azyr, and Huzard, stand conspicuous on this list. 

 From that time to the present, the writings on the vete- 

 rinary art have become numerous in every country, but 

 more particularly in France, and it follows that, in the 

 course of our labours, many of the most popular will be 

 quoted. 



SECTION II. 



A CONCISE HISTORY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE IN GREAT 



BRITAIN. 



The healing art, as applied to a curative treatment of the 

 diseases of our domesticated animals, was, in England, even 

 longer buried in gross ignorance than either in France or 

 Germany ; and when, at length, emulation had excited us, 

 our early attempts were more the effects of an imitation of 

 our French and German neighbours, than native improve- 

 ments of our own. It, however, worked a favourable 



