TRANSACTIONS AT THE ALFORT SCHOOL. 
101 
Of this number, 1446 have been actually admitted into the 
hospital, either for the purpose of being treated for disease, 
for being examined for returnable defects, or as subjects of 
surgical or therapeutic experiment. The remaining 7036 
were subjects of consultation. 
“The 1446 animals admitted consisted 
Of the horse tribe . . . 1041 
“ bovine do. ... 22 
Of small species . . . 683 
1446 
“ Animals submitted to consultation were — 
Horses 6510 
Cows ..... 33 
Asses and Mules ... 80 
Dogs 397 
f Goats 17] 
“ Small Animals J Cats 4 > 26 
l Pigs 3 J 
“ If we add to this the number returned last scholastic year, 
7994, it will be seen that the pupils receiving their diplomas, 
after having spent two years at school, have had opportunities 
of instruction in veterinary medicine and surgery from the 
considerable number of 16,486 subjects of different species. 
It is to be regretted, in order to obtain the greatest amount 
of instruction we can from this large number of patients, 
that there does not exist a special chair of clinique, exclu- 
sively devoted to the demonstration of disease at the 
habitation of the patient. 
“ If a chair existed specially for clinique, it would be possible 
with the number and variety of patients which came to the 
infirmary of the school, every week to give to the pupils 
three lectures on the practical demonstration of disease ; 
besides instituting a regular course of surgical, therapeutic, 
pharmacologic, and toxicologic experiments, which would 
not fail to result in great advantages to theoretic and practical 
medicine ; in initiating the pupils in, by daily exercises, the 
art of observing and recording their observations ; and, last 
of all, in practising them in the exercise of surgical operations 
during the entire session ; for which purpose, animals given 
up and which are doomed to destruction might be consigned to 
us. Besides which, the pupils in small groups might be con- 
ducted, under the direction of the chiefs of the school, over 
the farms of farmers living in the vicinity of the institution 
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