A CIRCULAR. 
5L 
I may conclude by asserting that, 1st, sound horses have been 
stabled with horses having strangles, and have caught the disease; 
and, 2dty, animals ill from strangles, on the same farm and in the 
same condition, have been separated from others in health, and the 
latter have not had the disease. 
If any shade of doubt be cast on the above observations, we can 
only say, “ Vide et ne sis incredulus .” 
Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire , July and August 1849. 
CIRCULAR. 
To the Members of the Veterinary Medical Association , London. 
Death has just removed from our ranks two veterans of science 
and the professorship. 
The learned and venerable M. Alexis Dupuy, senior professor 
at the Alfort School and director of the Veterinary School at Tou- 
louse, and the industrious professor, Jean Baptiste Rodet. 
Both, although holding different positions, are worthy of the ac- 
knowledgment and the respect of the veterinary profession. Dupuy 
has powerfully contributed to elevate it to that height in public 
esteem which it has attained. United by friendship, from an early 
period, with men illustrious in medical science, whose names will 
always shed lustre on this age, he made them appreciate, by the 
variety and profundity of his knowledge, the utility of our profes- 
sion, of which little was then known, and to which he had entirely 
devoted himself. And if the doors of the Academy of Medicine 
have been opened to veterinary surgeons from the foundation of 
that illustrious Society, it may be said, to the honour of Dupuy, 
that his high reputation has not been without its influence in pro- 
ducing this happy result. 
The learned Jean B. Rodet, although not occupying so elevated 
a position, was no less indefatigable in his devotion to our common 
science and the teaching of it, which he did even to the sacrifice of 
himself, and at last was overcome by the labour which he daily 
conscientiously performed. 
The lives of both have been entirely that of self-denial to them- 
selves and families, and of devotion to the public good : from 
which cause they have not left any thing to their widows and 
families. 
After forty-five years of public service, M. Dupuy has died en- 
tirely without resources, and his widow has not even the right to 
