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COMPTE RENDU OFTHE PROCEEDINGS OFTHE ROYAL 
VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT DURING 
THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 184-3-44. 
Clinical Chair. 
Titular Professor M. Renault 
Assistant Professor . . . .M. H. Bouley 
Chef de Service ...... ,M. Prudhomme. 
DURING this year thirteen hundred and ninety-two animals 
have been brought to the hospitals of the school, either for treat- 
ment or examination ; viz. nine hundred and ninety-eight horses, 
three hundred and fifty-three dogs, seventeen pigs, and twenty- 
four ruminants of different kinds. 
Of these, eight hundred and sixty horses, two hundred and 
eighty-eight dogs, fourteen pigs, and twenty ruminants, have been 
discharged either perfectly cured, or in a fair way towards recovery. 
Of the remaining hundred and thirty-eight horses, sixty-five dogs, 
three pigs, and four ruminants, some died, and others were given up 
to the establishment by their owners, and destroyed as incurable. 
The number of the latter amounted to eighty-nine, viz. seventy- 
three horses and sixteen dogs, all of which were victims of those 
fatal maladies glanders, farcy, and rabies. This will account for 
a mortality which at first appears to be so very great. In point 
of fact, the actual mortality during this session has been by no 
means great, never exceeding one in ten of the animals sent to the 
hospital. Besides the number abovementioned, sixty horses and 
sixteen dogs have been bought by the school, and destroyed for 
the purpose of instructing the pupils, and elucidating some obscure 
question of medicine, surgery, or therapeutics. 
Three thousand eight hundred and forty-six horses, twenty- 
seven asses, fourteen cows, one hundred and sixty-two dogs, and 
five pigs, have been brought to the morning consultations; and 
either the clinical professor or the chef de service have examined 
them, and given advice verbally, or in writing, or, where it was 
needful, performed the requisite operations. Some of these ani- 
mals were received into the hospital, and others attended at the 
stables of their owners by pupils in their fourth year of study. 
These pupils are also employed in the out-door practice, furnished 
- — this year — by a hundred and fifteen farmers, breeders, and 
graziers, who sent to the school for medical advice. Most of the 
patients in these cases were cattle. Thus pupils who, during the 
present year, have competed for their diplomas, and who have 
