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COMPTE RENDU OF THE CLINICAL AND CHIRUR- 
GICAL LABOURS OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL 
AT LYONS DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 
1840-41. 
By Professor Rey. 
During the scholastic year from the 1st of August, 1840, to 
the 31st of July, 1841, 1018 animals have been admitted into 
the hospital, viz. 557 horses, asses, or mules, 4 cows, and 457 
dogs, cats, sheep, and birds. 
Of the 557 horses, &c., 493 were discharged cured or materi- 
ally relieved, 32 died under treatment, and 34 were destroyed as 
incurable. 
Of the 457 dogs and other animals, 325 were cured, 81 died 
under treatment, and 51 were destroyed. 
The whole number of animals received exceeded those of the 
preceding year by 309, a circumstance sufficiently confirmatory 
of the improved character of the school. The number of horses 
that died were about one in seventeen — a small number, consider- 
ing # how many were brought to our school with incurable dis- 
eases, or which threatened a fatal termination, after every effort 
to accomplish a cure by the proprietor, the farrier, and the 
veterinary surgeon, had been attempted in vain ; and likewise 
taking into consideration that, on account of the smallness of our 
hospital, those only were received whose lives seemed to be in 
immediate danger, and others sent away with temporary appli- 
ances or medicines. 
The number of consultations has been very great, attributable 
to the central position of our school, and the extensive commerce 
of our city. 
Having been entrusted, during the last five months, with the 
clinical and surgical department of the school, I have kept a 
faithful register of the number of consultations, the animals that 
have been the object of them, the nature of the disease under 
which they laboured, the medicines that were prescribed, and the 
operations that were performed. In process of time this will give 
us a complete series of veterinary statistics ; interesting on account 
of its locality, useful to science generally, and particularly va- 
luable with reference to our peculiar art. 
In March 1841 there were 398 consultations respecting 218 horses, asses, 
or mules; 30 horses were visited with reference to purchase, and 4 with 
respect to possible unsoundness. There were 109 consultations having re- 
ference to 98 dogs, sheep, or pigs: altogether amounting to 507 consulta- 
tions, and 350 animals. 
