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medical attendant, and too often inducing the proprietor to 
abandon the breeding of sheep. Out of 1100 sheep sub- 
mitted to an anti-inflammatory and yet slightly tonic mode of 
treatment, a third only was saved ; and they were animals that 
were attacked at the very commencement of the disease. The 
others were speedily carried off, exhibiting after death hepati- 
zation of the lungs, with a complication of hydro-pericarditis 
and diarrhoea. The Theatre d’Agriculture, by Olivier de Serres, 
was awarded to this gentleman. 
7. M. Mousis, of Pau, sent the memoir of a case of retention 
of urine in a young mule, in consequence of violent inflamma- 
tion supervening on the removal of some fungous excrescences 
on the sheath. Rupture of the bladder and of the rectum en- 
sued, and the urine was discharged by the anus. A perfect 
cure was accomplished, but M. Mousis did not sufficiently enter 
into the details of the case. 
The same gentleman presented a memoir on a species of 
mange which was epizootic among the horses in the department 
of the Lower Pyrenees for more than eight months. This me- 
moir also contained some general considerations on the nature 
and treatment of mange and other cutaneous affections, and con- 
firming the opinions that had previously been promulgated by 
M. Chabert. M. Mousis has deserved well of the society. 
In 1827 he received the grand silver medal ; in 1828-9, ho- 
nourable mention was made of him. In 1835 the Theatre 
d’Agriculture of Olivier de Serres was awarded to him, and the 
gold medal in 1836. The society is persuaded that he will con- 
tinue to justify this honourable consideration by the continuance 
and the importance of his communications. 
8. M. Cros, V.S. of Milan, has sent a series of ten practical 
essays, all of them more or less interesting, on a gastro-intestinal 
disease which prevailed among horses in the autumn of 1835, 
in the provinces of Brescia and Cremona. Many veterinarians 
treated it as a kind of putrid fever, and employed setons and 
antiputrescent tonics. They lost a great many patients. Thirty- 
two animals afflicted with this malady came under the care of 
M. Cros. Two died in consequence of gangrene following the 
insertion of setons which were ordered before he was consulted. 
He lost but one horse among those that he had treated from 
the commencement of the disease. His treatment consisted in 
bleeding, and the administration of tartarized antimony in mu- 
cilaginous drinks. These speedily produced foetid alvine dis- 
charges, and a slight moisture of the skin. He then commenced 
a course of slightly opiate drinks, and the patient was usually 
well in about fourteen days. 
Annales de V Agriculture Frau false, Mai 1837. 
