ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 857 
“ M. Leblanc has left a durable mark in his profession, by 
his conduct throughout a life which he had entirely conse- 
crated to it, and with a fixity of idea and determination that 
never flagged. To comprehend and realise the value of this 
well-spent life, it is necessary to go back to the somewhat 
distant period when he entered upon his career. This was 
in 1814. Our veterinary institutions had not then been in 
existence more than fifty years, and if the first graduates 
from the schools had done much to continue and expand the 
work of the founder, still this work had not yet attained to 
more than its rough outline. By his natural disposition, M. 
Leblanc could not but associate himself in the efforts of those 
who had preceded him, and this he did with an ardour that 
age never chilled. Such as he was at the commencement, 
so we have always known him, even after fifty-five years’ 
exercise of his laborious profession. Always active, even while 
wearing his long white hair, assiduous in the accomplish- 
ment of all his duties, present in body and mind at the meet- 
ings of all the societies of which he formed a part, intervening 
when the time came to discuss that which he was competent 
to do, and devoting to the registration of the observations he 
had collected, or the memoirs he had conceived, the few, very 
few hours spared to him by a practice that grew larger in 
proportion as he himself grew in public estimation. 
“ The list of the works we owe to M. Leblanc is an exten- 
sive one. During the long period of which I have spoken 
his activity was applied to every department of veterinary 
science — medical and surgical pathology, therapeutics, opera- 
tions, the art of farriery, commercial jurisprudence, medical 
jurisprudence, sanitary police, hygiene, teaching, scientific 
and professional institutions — his mind embraced all. 
“ It is not here, nor in the frame of mind in which we now 
find ourselves at this time of a supreme separation (says M. 
Bouley), that it is possible to analyse the entire works of our 
learned confrere, so diversified and extensive are they ; but I 
should like, in characterising them by their chief traits, to 
show what M. Leblanc was, to mark the aim to which his 
efforts tended, and to record the essential results that they 
have produced. 
“ I cannot better portray M. Leblanc than by saying that 
he was always for progress, and that he incessantly and per- 
sistently sought for it ; and I hasten to add, that more than 
once he has been been enabled to realise it by his own efforts. 
This solicitude, from which he never deviated, had been for 
him on many occasions a useful counsellor. It was this 
which first determined him to join in the editorship of the 
