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loss every year. They are, more especially, inflammation and 
induration of the teats, which are often followed by the loss or 
after-uselessness of the animal — by gastro-enteritis — by meningeal 
enteritis, called in that part of the country, the croop, or the tremb- 
lings — by aphthae and turnsick ; and these carry off a great num- 
ber of sheep annually, and bid defiance to the vaunted cauteriza- 
tion of M. de Neyrac. 
To this interesting memoir, M. Roche Lubin has added other 
cases, of the reduction of protrusion of the womb in the sow, by 
spaying — on staggers in a horse following extraction of one of 
the eyes — on the extraction of a calculus in the neck of the blad- 
der of a young bull — and on worms in the aqueous humour of 
the eye of an ox, and extracted by puncturing the cornea. 
The society decreed the grand silver medal to Messrs. Canu 
and Roche Lubin. 
3. M. Gayotof Strasbourg, besides a MS. on the management 
of a stud, and which he was about to publish, and the decision 
on the merits of which the society very properly left to the pub- 
lic, sent a memoir on the intermittent fever which had pre- 
vailed among the merinos at Bonnes ; and which has been suc- 
cessfully treated by bark, holm, and the lesser centaury. This 
memoir is the more interesting, as it proves the existence of fever 
in the sheep, which had been doubted by some practitioners. M. 
Gayot has added a statistical account of the commune of Savoy, 
the canton of Marson, and the arrondissement of Chalons sur 
Maine. This memoir describes the progress of agriculture in 
those places during the last twenty-two years, and which only 
needed more extended knowledge of the breeding and diseases 
of cattle and sheep. The society awarded him a well-bound 
copy of the “ Theatre de Agriculture/ 7 by Olivier de Serris. 
4. M. Mouris, V.S. of Oloron, of whom honourable mention 
had been made in 1828-9, to whom the society had awarded the 
grand silver medal in 1827, and the “ Theatre of Agriculture 77 in 
1835, has sent two memoirs. The first contains an account of 
an acute epizootic fever, which attacked various kinds of animals, 
but particularly cattle in the arrondissement of Oloron, during the 
year 1832. The disease is well described, and the causes clearly 
exposed. It is principally attributable to the carelessness of the 
proprietors, which can neither be prevented nor lessened. The 
treatment was not always fortunate ; that which oftenest suc- 
ceeded consisted in copious and repeated bleedings, emollient and 
mucilaginous drinks, and restricted diet. One hundred and 
twenty animals, submitted to the treatment of empirics, had been 
destroyed by a stimulating plan of treatment, and out of eighty which 
he found ill, seventy were saved by the means which he adopted. 
