162 VETERINARIANS OP THE FRENCH ARMY. 
The failure of vermifuges was enough to discourage me in 
my new office ; but the fault was not mine, and the colt fell 
a victim to suffocation ; and three days afterwards, a fourth 
died. The former had collections of bots in the oesophagus 
and pharynx ; the other, who died in the midst of convul- 
sions, showed symptoms of acute gastritis, and a large quan- 
tity of bots were adherent to the mucous coat of the stomach 
which presented the same coloration. A certain number of 
bots taken from these various situations were sent, in alcohol, 
to Professor Bonelli, for his opinion ; and I received an answer 
from this celebrated naturalist to say that they all belonged to 
the same species* The ten remaining colts, as the autumn 
advanced, passed numbers of bots, and after that improved in 
condition and quite recovered . — Receuil de Med. Vet., de 
Lecemb. 1853. 
AUGMENTATION OE THE VETERINARIANS OF THE 
FRENCH ARMY. 
JDecret Imperial, augmenting the number of Assistant Veterinary 
Surgeons of the Qd Class . 
“ Napoleon, by the grace of God and the will of the 
Nation, Emperor of the French, to all present and to come, 
greeting. 
Pursuant to the decree of the 28th January, 1833, di- 
recting the organisation of the Veterinary Surgeons of the 
Army; considering that two new remount establishments 
have been formed, one at Nevers, another at Favernay, and 
that the new mode of purchasing horses of remount for the 
army requires the concurrence of two veterinarians for the 
entire year at the establishments of Caen, de Saint-Lo, and 
Alenin ; 
At the showing of our Secretary of State for the War 
Department, 
We have decreed and do decree as follows : 
Art. 1 . The number of Assistant Veterinary Surgeons of 
the 2d Class, fixed at seventy-six by the decree of the 28th 
January and 29th February, 1852, is augmented by five, 
making the present total eighty-one. 
Art. 2. Our Secretary of State for the War Department 
is charged with carrying this decree into effect. 
Given under our hand, at the Palace of the Tuileries, 
3d December, 1853. Napoleon.” 
By order of the Emperor : 
To De Saint- Arnaud, Marshal of France, 
and Military Secretary of W ar. 
