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farcy the infiltration will sometimes be observed extending deep 
between the muscles, and every now and then abscesses, depots of 
matter, of considerable volume, will be discovered buried among 
the fleshy structures. Nor do the bones, no more than the mus- 
cles, escape the ravages of farcy and glanders : we know how the 
turbinated and ethmoid and nasal and maxillary bones have suffered 
in malignant cases of the former disease ; and we are assured by 
Dupuy and others, that many of the bones of the limbs and body 
have proved extensively diseased in horses that have for a length 
of time been afflicted with farcy. 
THE FRENCH ARMY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
[We have hastily transcribed the report given by the Minister of 
War to the French monarch respecting the army veterinary 
surgeons, and the royal ordinance issued in order to modify 
their proper position. — Want of space compels us to postpone 
until another number the reflections which are inspired by 
these two documents, and which are calculated to have so great 
an influence on the veterinary surgeons in France.] Redacteur. 
Report to his Majesty. 
18th March, 1843. 
Sire, — The position of army veterinary surgeons, both as regard 
the rank which they occupy and the pay allowed them, has, of 
late, been the subject of attention, and, since 1843 been frequently 
brought before the legislature. 
Government has already admitted that the conditions under which 
pupils are received into the Royal Veterinary Schools — the studies 
there pursued by them — and the severity of the subsequent exa- 
minations which they undergo, ought to insure to army veterinary 
surgeons a very different position to that hitherto occupied by 
them, they having hitherto been allowed to rank but little higher 
than the farrier major. 
If no alteration has hitherto been proposed in their behalf, and 
they have been entirely omitted in all ameliorations introduced 
into the condition of the officers, sub-officers, and soldiers, it 
is not because any doubt has been entertained respecting their 
rights, but in order to collect every particular, and deliberate over 
those modifications best calculated to improve the condition of this 
useful body of men, and which could not be introduced without 
