VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
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Thus, the pupils who are this year to go up for their veterinary 
diplomas, have had the opportunity of watching the progress of 
ditferent diseases in more than twelve thousand animals of various 
kinds. 
Such has been the subject of the clinical course during the last 
two years. 
In order to enable the pupils to profit as extensively as possible 
from the immense multitude of cases brought under their notice, 
they have, according to the excellent system practised in our 
schools, been ranged in two classes, one for each year, and had 
committed to their care, in the order of their standing on the list 
and the date of admission of the animals, one or more patients, and 
have had to render a circumstantial report of every symptom and 
minutia of treatment daily required of them. 
Every morning, at the visiting period, the professor, or the chef 
de service, commands the attention of the pupils by his practical 
remarks, and directs them to the study of clinical facts by off-hand 
questions concerning diseases thought of at the moment. 
Lastly, in the clinical lectures given in the amphitheatre, the 
professor completes the studies commenced by the side of the 
patient. 
We are now about to give a short summary of the observations, 
researches, and experiments which have been made in the clinical 
department during the course of the present year. 
A. Glanders.— *The Horse. 
The following is the resume of 129 cases treated in the hospital 
during the present year. We present them in the abstract, in 
order to avoid entering into statements which would be but re- 
petitions of doctrines we have already promulgated. 
1. The principal cause of glanders is excessive fatigue and over 
work, which barely leaves to the horse one day’s rest in the whole 
seven*. 
2. Falls from a great height, into trenches or pits, for example, 
are frequently the fore runners of glanders!. 
* It is always in the carriage of stones and heavy loads ; in the establish- 
ments of small speculators who keep but a limited number of horses and 
employ these animals incessantly ; also, in establishments where rapid draught 
is required, as those of post-masters, of persons who horse the diligences, and 
of hackney coach proprietors, &c. that this disease commits the greatest ravages. 
t We have been led to make this observation since the commencement of 
the extensive fortifications. Frequently, horses which have been dragged 
