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THE VETERINARIAN, MARCH 1 , 18 . 37 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
Extract from the Report of the Veterinary School 
at Alfort, during the Scholastic Year 1835-36. 
[Concluded from vol. ix, page 677-] 
[We again yield the place of honour to a record of the pro- 
ceedings of one of the foreign veterinary schools ; and happy 
should we be if we were enabled to do the same with regard to 
the British schools, both north and south of the Tweed. The 
universal wish of the profession, and the improvement and onward 
progress of veterinary science, imperiously demand some periodi- 
cal report from our recognized seminaries of veterinary instruction.] 
M. Maillet, attached to the hospital, has undertaken a series 
of experiments on the physiological and toxicological effects of 
the ioduretsof potassium and mercury, administered internally. 
He remarked that ioduret of potassium, given in solution, was 
an exceedingly violent acrid poison. In a dose of half a drachm 
fora dog, and from two to three drachms for a horse, it pro- 
duced, in the course of a quarter of an hour, all the symptoms of 
the caustic minerals ; and beside these peculiar symptoms, there 
were in the horse violent abdominal contractions, but which were 
not followed by the ejection of any of the contents of the bowels. 
He observed, that when he gave half an ounce, the horse died of 
gastric or intestinal hemorrhage. A chemical analysis of the 
urine evacuated during the life of the animal, or afterwards 
taken from the bladder, discovered the presence of the ioduret; 
but it could not be found in the blood ; not even in that of the 
renal arteries, opened during the life of the animal. 
The deuto-ioduret of mercury, administered in the same dose, 
did not appear to have the slightest effect, except united to or 
dissolved in a solution of the ioduret of potassium. When these 
two substances are combined, the effect is more decisive than 
from the ioduret of potassium alone, thus demonstrating evi- 
