REPORT OF THE VETERINARY 
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surgical luminaries — still, however, teaching me a lesson of 
caution : — “ The principal relief has hitherto been derived from 
operations,” says Sir Astley Cooper : “The division of the nerves 
does no good/’ says John Abernethy. 
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE LABOURS 
OF THE ROYAL VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS, 
DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1834-5. 
[W e have regularly presented our readers with an abstract of the 
proceedings of the French veterinary schools. It is pleasing 
to become acquainted with what our continental brethren are 
about, and to know how far our art is progressing or retro- 
grading under their management. We have inserted far more 
important documents than the present, and during the perusal 
of which we have been enabled better to identify ourselves 
with the operations of those on the other side of the channel ; 
but, notwithstanding there is somewhat too much of loose and 
general description in the abstract of M. Raynard, it is de- 
serving of record. — Edit.] 
Hospital: M . Raynard, Professor. 
1182 patients have been received into the hospital during the 
last year, the greater number of whom were horses and dogs * the 
rest were composed of cattle, sheep, goats, and a few domesti- 
cated birds. Double this number of animals have been brought 
to us for consultation, or for the performance of certain operations, 
without taking into account a great many more that our pupils 
attended on away from the school. Of these 1182 animals, 
958 were cured or considerably relieved, 216 died, and 8 yet 
remain in the hospital. The mortality is always greatest among 
the dogs : we shall endeavour to account for this when we 
speak of the cases of distemper. 
The diseases which furnished us with cases or observations 
worthy of being recorded may be divided into three classes. In 
the first are glanders, farcy, distemper, cutaneous affections, and 
rabies — maladies which occur in every year, and little differing 
in each year, either in form or number. In the second class 
may be placed diseases dependent on change of temperature, 
on the general character of the season and the food and labour 
of the respective patients, as coryza, angina, bronchitis, and 
