132 COM PTE RENDU OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL 
In April there were 355 consultations with reference to 185 sick horses; 
36 were visited, 20 examined for supposed unsoundness, and 81 consulta- 
tions having reference to seventy-five dogs, &c. ; in the whole amounting 
to 436 consultations and 306 animals. 
In May the horse consultations were 418, 277 having reference to illness, 
37 to examination for purchase, 9 for supposed unsoundness; and 65 with re- 
ference to fifty-four dogs. Total consultations 483, animals 388. 
In June there were 372 consultations with reference to 208 sick horses — 
fifty-two visits, twelve examinations of supposed unsoundness; 71 consulta- 
tions with respect to sixty-six dogs. Total 443 consultations, and 338 animals. 
July gave 425 consultations respecting 243 sick horses, twenty-four visits, 
nine examinations for unsoundness, with 73 consultations respecting fifty-one 
dogs. Total, 498 consultations, and 328 animals. 
Thus, in the space of five months only, there were 2367 consultations with 
reference to 1699 animals; in addition to which 530 animals were admitted 
into the infirmary, so that the clinical course afforded 2239 different animals 
or objects for study in the course of these five months. Among them were 
eight cows, two goats, fourteen sheep, and twenty-three pigs. The reason 
of the small number of cattle is, that few of them are bred in these districts, 
and that scarcely any but dairy cattle are to be met with in this neighbourhood. 
Every day, however, the students of the third and fourth years were in requi- 
sition to attend on some of these cows. This was exceedingly advantageous 
to them. On every evening they reported to the clinical professor the result 
of the journey, and the Professor accompanied them when any thing of pe- 
culiar interest presented itself. 
In a medical point of view the meteorological phenomena of this year have 
been peculiarly interesting ; and particularly in multiplying those diseases, 
in the production of which the hygrometrical state of the atmosphere exerts 
so much influence. The strange diseases attributable to the inundation of 
February have increased the pernicious effects of that unhealthy season, and 
the habitations that had been overflowed retained a degree of dampness, the 
ill effect of which was not sufficiently appreciated : thus, glanders and farcy, 
diseases always frequent in this town, from its being so often surrounded by 
dense fogs, and its walls bathed by two rivers, have been peculiarly preva- 
lent. In many stables that had been overflown, chronic glanders assumed 
an enzootic form. Farcy, common among us at the beginning of winter and 
in the spring, has been less obstinate than usual, and has generally yielded to 
the employment of the aetual cautery, or to the use of arsenical ointments. 
Every year we have many foot cases to treat, attributable to the bad state 
of our roads, the hard and irregular pavement of the streets of Lyons, and 
the thick and almost permanent collections of mud and dirt which almost 
every where occur. 
The fodder of our horses, not often well housed, but frequently damp and 
musty, is a too common source of disease This has been peculiarly remark- 
able of late, and we have seldom had so numerous and obstinate affections of 
the skin. 
The variable temperature, and the frequent and cold rains that have pre- 
vailed, have caused, in the horse and the dog, much inflammation of the 
mucous membranes of the respiratory passages ; nevertheless, it must be ac- 
knowledged, that a temperature almost uniformly moderate has rendered 
the season a healthy one for horses of quick pace, and the general mortality 
has been small, compared with that of preceding years. We have scarcely 
observed any of the maladies which are frequent in summer. Meningitis 
and encephalitis have scarcely shewn themselves. To the intemperate 
weather of the spring has succeeded that of autumn, and with them the af- 
fections that usually follow in their train. 
