VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
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The Compte Rendu of the Clinical Chair. 
Professor M. Renault 
Assistant Professor.. .M. H. Bouley 
Principal Assistant... M. Prud’homme. 
During- the scholastic year which has just passed, 1256 dis- 
eased animals, the objects of consultation and clinical experiment, 
have been admitted into our- hospitals. Of this number 956 were 
horses, 285 dogs, and 15 cattle. Besides these, 2813 horses, 105 
dogs, and 20 cattle, were brought to the college for consultation. 
The pupils of the fourth year have, as in all preceding years, 
had the out-door practice to attend to, which is distributed among 
more than a hundred and twenty proprietors in the neighbourhood, 
who have, at various times, applied for advice at the college, and 
principally for cattle. Thus the attention and advice of the di- 
recting professor, and the clinical pupils, have been required in the 
hospitals of the college at the morning consultations, and also 
other attention, for more than 4376 animals of different species, 
which number, when added to those of the last year, will make 
10,376, on which the pupils who have received their diplomas 
have had the opportunity of practising and studying their diseases. 
We have always regretted that, notwithstanding the govern- 
ment regulations which grant to ruminating animals a free entry 
into the hospital of the college, the number is still, comparatively 
speaking, very small. Perhaps it may be necessary for the mea- 
sure of which we are speaking to have time to bring this to ma- 
turity, as certain obstacles have been raised which tend to limit 
the transit to and from Paris, a toll having to be paid at the 
entrance of the city for each head of cattle. We are not, there- 
fore, surprised at the owners hesitating to send their animals to 
the school for advice, forced as they are to pay a new toll for 
them before they can reach the hospital. As long as this obstacle 
exists, we must not expect to see animals that have been at- 
tacked by any of those dreadful epizootics, such as have been so 
prevalent for several years, brought from the cow-houses of Paris 
into our hospitals. 
While studying the diseases to which domesticated animals 
are most liable, we cannot fail to be struck by the great influence 
exercised by the person who breeds and rears them. 
How many things are there in the badly ordered state of do- 
mestication in which we compel them to live which act most 
prejudicially on their constitutions, and lay the seeds of disease, 
and often of death ! How frequently are we ignorant of or misun- 
derstand their constitution ! How much want of foresight do we 
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