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COMPTE-RENDU OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL 
VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT, DURING THE 
SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1841-2. 
Clinical Chair. 
Professor M. Renault, Director. 
Assistant Professor . . M. Bouley. 
Chef de Service M.Prudhomme. 
During the scholastic year that has just run its course, there 
have been brought into the hospitals of the school eleven hundred 
and eighty-two diseased animals. Of this number nine hundred 
and thirty were horses, thirty-five belonged to the different classes 
of ruminants, and two hundred and twenty-eight were dogs. 
Almost four thousand patients have also been brought to the 
school for consultation. 
The pupils of the fourth year have, as in preceding years, ex- 
ercised themselves in out-of-door practice, among a great number 
of persons in the neighbourhood, who have claimed the assistance 
of the school. The number of animals thus treated have consi- 
derably increased during the year. 
Thus, then, the care and advice of the Professor, the Chief of 
the Service, and of the pupils of the clinical department have 
been in constant requisition, either in the hopitals of the school, 
or at the morning consultations, or out-of-doors, with respect to 
more than six thousand animals, a number almost double that of 
former years, and which, being added to those of last year, amount 
to the great number of nine thousand, five hundred, and forty- 
four animals of different species on which the pupils who are 
seeking their diplomas have been enabled to practise. 
It is to be regretted that among this number there was a very 
small proportion of ruminating animals ; but we should remember 
that the practice recently adopted by the Minister of Agriculture 
of permitting animals of the bovine and ovine species to enter 
gratuitously into the hospitals, has not yet been sufficiently 
adopted. It will not, however, be long ere this measure will be 
completely brought into practice. 
We shall now endeavour to describe the most interesting re- 
sults at which we have arrived, whether by clinical observation or 
direct experiment. 
Acute glanders . — Glanders has always the privilege of occupy- 
ing a considerable place in the columns of our compte-rendu. It 
