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compared with the value of the animal. In this, as in the pre- 
ceding years, the greater part of those that were destroyed were 
either farcied orglandered. 
Our list does not contain those, 61 in number, who are now 
in the hospital, nor the cows, sheep, and pigs belonging to the 
establishment, and which have been subjected to various opera- 
tions and courses of treatment. 
In addition to the animals that have been actually received 
into the hospitals, 2265 have been brought to us — some for me- 
dical advice — others fur examination as to soundness, and others 
to be lodged with us during certain legal processes. Each of 
these has been carefully examined, either by the professor or his 
assistant, and verbal or written advice given, or certain neces- 
sary operations performed. On the whole, therefore, 2752 patients 
have been submitted to our inspection ; while the students of the 
fourth year have been sent to a great many places in the neigh- 
bourhood, to attend on sick animals of every description. 
All the observations which he has been enabled to make, dur- 
ing the present year, on Glanders and Farcy, whether in 
studying the symptoms of these diseases in the living animal, 
or its lesions in the post-mortem examination, or by diligent 
inquiry into the causes of these maladies, have confirmed 
M. Renault in the opinion, which he has often publicly stated, 
and which is assented to by the greater number of veterinarians, 
that they are perfectly identical ; and that the difference in their 
curability depends entirely on the seat of each. Many farcied 
horses have been cured — some by the simple extirpation of the 
cords or buttons which characterize that malady ; others by ex- 
tirpation combined with the application of the cautery ; and 
others, again, by the exclusive employment of this latter mode of 
treatment, and which is always preferable when farcy shews 
itself under the form of buttons or circumscribed tumours. But 
if, after the disappearance of the symptoms of farcy, the animals 
which seem to be cured are not placed for a considerable 
length of time in a situation, and submitted to a treatment 
favourable to the establishment and preservation of health, it 
will often happen that either the same symptoms of farcy, or 
those of glanders, will reappear in the course of a few weeks or 
months, or, perhaps, a year. 
Cases, not a few in number, have also induced M. Renault 
to think, that when farcy, either at once or by degrees, has ap- 
peared on different parts of the body, under the form of cords 
or tumours, with enlargement of the neighbouring glands, it is 
rare that the animal so affected, and, perhaps, in appearance, 
cured, does not finish, sooner or later, by dying glandered or 
