FOREIGN VETEEINARY SCHOOLS. XV 



structed, paved, and ventilated ; tlie box stalls, and places for 

 other domestic animals, are well arranged. Litter is not used 

 during the day, but sand is strewed under the horses. The 

 stables were full of patients of all descriptions : there were 

 several cases of lameness and lethargy similar to those at 

 Vienna, and their treatment was nearly the same. There was 

 a case of locked jaw that had been cured by a method different 

 from that employed in this country.* A riding house is at- 

 tached to the school, for the instruction of pupils intended for 

 the army ; who receive pay from the time of entrance. There 

 is a beautifully constructed warm water and vapour bath, with 

 a room adjoining, to receive the patients after bathing, which is 

 heated occasionally by a stove : the bath is supplied with hot or 

 cold water by an ingenious hydraulic contrivance. The royal 

 stables are handsome buildings, and kept in excellent order. 

 Sand is used under the horses instead of litter in the day time. 

 They adjoin the river Spree, into which there is a jiaved slope, 

 which enables them to bathe or wash their horses. ISIr. Sewell 

 brought with him some useful instruments for relieving oxen or 

 sheep that are lioven or hloivii; he has, since his return, sent them 

 into the country for trial ; they arc said to be employed, Avitli 

 great success, in Germany. 



On arriving at Hanover, Mr. Sewell was introduced to Pro- 

 fessor Havemann by Assistant Professor Housemann, whom 

 he had seen in England. The infirmary stables had much 

 dilapidated during the war, from being occupied by foreign 

 cavalry. There were no patients in them. The royal stables, 

 which will contain between two and three hundred horses, 

 are near the school; they are handsome buildings, well con- 

 structed, light, airy and spacious ; the windows have canvass 

 shades." 



In Holland there are no veterinary schools. The Royal 

 stables at the Hague are well constructed, and in fine order. 

 The heads of the stalls and bottoms of the mansfers are lined 

 with glazed Dutch tile, and are kept in the cleanest state, with 

 very little trouble. Sand is used in the stalls In the day time. 

 At Brussels, there was nothing worthy of attention, except an 

 effectual method of drainino- a laroe barrack stable, which Mr. 

 Sewell does not describe. He says that by inquiries and ob- 

 servation, he obtained in Holland some useful ■practical informa- 

 tion, which, with the new remedy for locked jaw, the German 

 method of treating lethargic complaints, and the various im- 



* Had the governors of the Veterinary College known that locked jaw 

 is very rarely cured in this country, they would porhaj^s have desired 

 Mr. Sewell to describe the successful mode of treating it to which he alludes. 

 This communication, probably, with the other useful observations he may 

 have made, will be published at a more convenient time. 



