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THE KOVAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY 
the cows have often excoriations on the hands resembling those 
on the teats of cows ; and some few who are not thus vaccinated, 
nevertheless have the true cow-pox vesicle developed upon them. 
In others that were vaccinated, there was a slight redness round 
the part, and the appetite was impaired to a greater or less degree. 
In a country like this, in which the milk, formed into butter, 
constitutes the chief revenue of the farmer, a disease which attacks 
the teats, and diminishes the secretion of milk, and in some 
animals dries it up altogether, excites much cause for fear. Never- 
theless, as has been remarked in other countries, if the milk does 
diminish in quantity in the animals that continue to yield it — 
and they are the greater number — it is proportionably more abund- 
ant in butyrous matter. The consumption which has continued 
to be made both of the milk and the butter not being followed 
by any unpleasant circumstance, the fear that prevailed has sub- 
sided in these countries. 
9. M. Reynal, V.S. in the First Regiment of Lancers, has 
contributed two interesting papers; the first on an extraordinary 
hypertrophy of the internal lateral cartilage of the foot — and the 
other on acute and chronic disease of the ovary in a mare. 
M. Reynel accompanies these by another and yet more valua- 
ble paper entitled “ One Word on the Causes of the Mortality 
of the Cavalry Horses in France ” 
The mortality among the cavalry horses in France is very great, 
compared with that which takes place in horses employed in other 
services, and even in those that occur in other European cavalry 
regiments. The remount of the cavalry is consequently so dear, 
that the legislative chambers have been roused to a consideration 
of the subject, and the minister of war is actively employed in 
endeavouring to discover the causes of this mortality. It has 
also been remarked that — simple accidents being excepted — the 
loss is far more considerable in peace than in war. Many vete- 
rinary surgeons have lately entered their protest against this 
strange mortality. 
The cause of it among the French horses is so plainly deve- 
loped, that the new modelling or new construction of a great 
number of military stables has been decided upon; but, when the 
time arrives for its being carried into execution, some persons will 
be at too great a distance — others too superficial in their notions 
of that which should be done — and others imagining that the 
mortality depends exclusively on the construction of the stables. 
Many veterinary medical men have pointed out other causes of 
the mortality among the troops. They have the best oppor- 
tunity, as well as the strongest interest, in developing the true 
cause of the evil. They do well in rebuilding the old garri- 
