ROYAL VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS, 1841-2. 391 
This number is very trifling, when we reflect that it represents 
not only the deaths which take place among the patients admitted 
into the hospital, but also includes those that were brought us for 
consultation. 
The school being situated in the town itself, it only admits into 
the hospital animals attacked by serious diseases, on which the 
proprietors are not able to bestow the necessary attention. The 
others are only visited every day. 
This regulation in the establishment renders the practice very 
varied. The animals are not suffered to remain any great length of 
time in the hospital ; but as soon as they are sufficiently well to 
admit of their being moved, are sent home, and only brought to us 
periodically until their cure is complete. 
Of the 509 dogs and other carnivora received, 386 were cured, 
and 123 died. The diseases were, of epilepsy 6, hydrophobia 62, 
acute and chronic internal diseases 34, surgical cases 6, abandoned 
or destroyed as incurable 16. 
If we subtract the number of incurables, and those destroyed, 
we shall find that the mortality amounts to one in ten. 
The number of out-door patients has increased during the last 
year, even in greater proportion than that of the in-door patients. 
It amounts to 8934. Among these we find 4598 solipedes, 16 
cows, 190 sheep, 27 pigs, 4078 dogs, and 25 other animals of 
various kinds. 
The pupils in the third and fourth years of study have been sent 
for by different proprietors to attend numerous patients, and espe- 
cially cattle. They had to exercise their practical knowledge on 
94 horses, 107 cows, 20 sheep or goats, 8 pigs, and 18 dogs, 
making in the whole 247 animals. 
Thus, during this scholastic year the pupils have had for the 
objects of their studies in the hospital, and among the out-door 
patients, and among those in the country, 7234 animals. 
This is an immense number, and bears ample testimony to the 
importance of a school which can, during the space of the two years 
which the clinical course lasts, furnish its pupils with 15000 sub- 
jects of instruction. 
Ruminants. 
Until very lately, the veterinary schools have had little opportunity 
of observing the diseases of the larger ruminants. In the environs 
of Lyons, it was only among farmers that it was possible to treat 
the diseases of milch cows ; the two toll-gates, which had to be 
paid before they could reach the school, forming a great obstacle to 
their bringing their cattle to us. It is of the utmost importance 
that these animals should be brought under our notice, and that this 
