THE BRUSSELS SCHOOL. 
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The indication afforded me by these symptoms could not easily 
x be misunderstood. 1 opened the jugular vein, and abstracted 
eight ounces of blood. It coagulated almost immediately, and 
the buffy coat occupied one-third of the glass. The calf lay 
down very soon afterwards, and drew a long and deep inspira- 
tion. 
In two hours from that time, the respiration, although quick 
and laborious, was silent ; the mouth closed, and the calf lay 
down in a natural position. I could only count from 58 to 60 in- 
spirations in the course of a minute, and the beatings of the 
heart, although still tumultuous, had subsided to 64 or 66. I 
ordered a very restricted diet, emollient injections, and a second 
bleeding of six ounces at night, and these were followed by still 
greater diminution of acute symptoms. 
25th . — The animal was much stronger; the calf gradually 
returned to its natural food, and enjoyed good health, except 
that it did not attain the size and condition which others from 
the same mother had done. 
Mem. de la Soc. Vet. du Calvados, vol. ii, p. 114. 
THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1 , 1837. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE NATIONAL VETERINARY AND AGRICULTURAL 
SCHOOL AT CUREGHEM-LES-BRUXELLES. 
A friend has kindly favoured us with the following sketch 
of the Brussels school. We should be guilty of much injustice 
if we did not lay it before our readers. We pretend not to say 
that it is a perfect outline of what a veterinary school ought to be. 
Perhaps the courses are a little too numerous and complicated; 
but it contains much that well deserves the deep consideration 
of the professors of the different veterinary schools, and of the 
government of every country. It is founded on that basis on 
which alone a veterinary school and the improvement of the most 
important national interests can securely and honourably rest. 
Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture ! they arc kindred arts, 
and each suffers when thev arc disunited. 
