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confirmed. The wounds rapidly healed — his appetite was ex- 
cellent — and on the 9th of February, twenty-seven days after his 
admission to the hospital, the horse was again put to his former 
work. There was still a sore in the region of the flank as large as a 
hand, but the owner did not regard that. The sore gradually 
disappeared, and the horse has continued his work to the pre- 
sent time. 
Recueil de Med. Vet. 
THE ROYAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE 
IN FRANCE: 
A REPORT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES BY MESSRS. 
GIRARD, YVART, BARTHELEMY, AND HUZARD. 
1. M. Jacobs, principal veterinary surgeon in the 11th Dra- 
goons, presented a memoir respecting an inflammatory disease 
that prevailed in the commencement of 1841, in the 11th regiment 
of Dragoons, and which, in certain cases, assumed a resemblance 
to glanders and acute farcy. This communication throws much 
light on the disastrous effects of the alternations of privation 
and abundance, and good and bad usage, to which the young- 
sters are so frequently exposed as they pass through the hands 
of different dealers until the kind of service in which they are to 
be employed is determined. 
2. M. Dehan, of Luneville, has contributed some useful ob- 
servations on gastro-enteritis, complicated with pneumonia ; and 
others on gastritis, complicated with hepatitis and meningitis. 
Although these diseases are frequent, the means of cure, and 
especially of the last, are difficult. 
3 and 4. The next in order of merit were MM. Lecoq and 
Blavette. Scarcely a year had ever passed without some valuable 
observations being brought before the Society by these zealous 
veterinarians. M. Lecoq now presented a series of cases, among 
which were the following: — a case of inversion of the uterus 
in a cow followed by perforation of that organ, and yet a cure 
being effected ; — an accidental but complete section of the flexor 
tendons in the left fore foot, in a colt, three years old, and a per- 
fect cure being effected by the bandages introduced and re- 
commended by Bourgelat, but differing in the manner in which 
they were secured to the base of the foot ; — also a fistula of the 
anus in a horse, cured by the insertion of a leaden sound into the 
anus, passing through, and, by degrees, obliterating the fissure. 
This method, borrowed from the practice of the human surgeon, 
