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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
on 195 animals belonging to persons in the neighbourhood of the 
school*. 
We limit ourselves to a very few subjects in reviewing the 
proceedings of the year. 
Glanders and Farcy. — For a long time patients af- 
flicted with this disease have not been so numerous as they used 
to be ; yet we have not been more fortunate than heretofore in 
our attempts to conquer this dreadful malady. 
It is true, that many horses that had laboured under the one 
or the other, or both of these diseases, were to all appearance 
cured ; but these were young and strong constitutioned horses, that 
had been diseased only a little while, and that presented none 
of the characters of confirmed chronic glanders : and it must be 
added, with regard to those that have remained in the infirmary, 
and those, of whom, continuing with their former proprietors, 
we have not lost sight, that, at the expiration of some months, 
every symptom has reappeared, and they have been destroyed. 
Perhaps we must confess yet more : that these temporary 
cures have been attributable to cleanliness, and care, and good 
feeding, far more than to the influence of any drug, or any 
medical treatment whatever. Therefore Professor Renault 
always frankly expresses his opinion, that, in the present state of 
veterinary knowledge, glanders is an incurable disease; and that 
it is more for the interest of the owners of horses to destroy them 
on the very first appearance of this pest, than to incur any expense 
in fruitless attempts to arrest that which must run its course. 
This Professor deems it his duty to state one fact of consider- 
able importance to practitioners. He had long observed, that many 
good-constitutioned horses, after having for one or tw r o months 
presented all the symptoms of glanders, ceased all at once to 
discharge from the nose, and the chancres on the nasal mem- 
brane rapidly healed, but that the enlargement of the glands of 
the jaw remained, and that until the reappearance of the other 
characters of the disease. The dissection of these glands in 
some horses that he had thought it right to destroy, having 
proved to him that they always contained, in their centre, or on 
their surface, a greater or smaller number of reservoirs of puri- 
form or tuberculous matter, he thought that it was the increased 
* The translator had occasion to see at Alfort, in the beginning of Oc- 
tober, a small flock of Merino sheep, and a more numerous one of Leices- 
ters. The director of the school, M. Yvart, has enthusiastically devoted 
himself to the improvement of the French breed of sheep. Experiments 
were likewise conducting for the amelioration of the breed of swine. A 
considerable number of cattle, and sheep, and hogs were necessary for the 
provision of more than 200 students, all of whom, according to the regu- 
lations of the French schools, lived within the walls of the establishment. — Y. 
