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of the external surface wherein different organs are to be found, the 
evidence afforded by auscultation will prove more perplexing than 
instructive. 
I find that my remarks have taken up more space than I in- 
tended ; I must, therefore, defer some illustrations and additional 
minutise until another time. But I hope that what I have here 
advanced, will draw the attention of my brother-practitioners par- 
ticularly to this point, and thereby lead to the promulgation of a 
series of facts as firmly establishing “ auscultation” amongst us 
as it long has been established among practitioners of human 
medicine. 
Extracts from Domestic & Foreign Journals, Veterinary, 
Medical, Agricultural, Sporting, &c. 
Compte Rendu of the Proceedings of the Royal Veteri- 
rinary School at Alfort during the Scholastic Year 
1844-45. 
Clinical Chair . 
Titulary Professor . . M. Renault. 
Assistant Professor . . M. H. Bouley. 
Chef de Service . . . . M. Prudhomme. 
During the scholastic year which has just elapsed, 1546 
animals of different kinds have been entered in the hospital for 
medical or surgical treatment, or examined with regard to their 
fitness for service, or under commercial or judicial circumstances : 
of these were 1170 horses or mules, 11 asses, 26 cows, 11 sheep 
or goats, and 328 dogs. 
Four thousand five hundred horses, 60 asses, 7 cows, 5 goats, 
7 pigs, and 203 dogs, have been brought for advice to the morning 
consultations. 
Lastly, the pupils in their fourth year of their study have been 
sent to nearly two hundred farmers, market-gardeners, and graziers 
in the neighbouring localities, to attend cattle, sheep, and pigs. 
