29S ENZOOTIC ENTERITIS AMONG HORSES IN PARIS. 
The students were minutely examined as to their knowledge of 
the anatomy and structure of the horse, and also the diseases 
to which the domesticated animals are liable, and the practical 
treatment of the same. The examinators expressed themselves 
highly satisfied with the proficiency and extent of knowledge of 
the several candidates. 
Professor Dick gives prizes to the student who passes the 
first examination, and also to the one who produces the best 
anatomical preparation. The judges of the anatomical prepara- 
tions (Professor Lizars and Dr. Mercer) awarded the prize to 
Mr. Kirkham. But that respecting the best examination was not 
so easily decided. There were three gentlemen who, after the 
first examination, were considered to be so equal that they were 
subjected to a second, which by request was conducted by Dr. 
Mercer, but who, after a most searching series of interrogatories, 
still declared his inability to prefer one to the other, because each 
candidate had answered every question put to him. They were 
again examined by Professor Dick ; but, even after this third 
trial, their merits were so equal, and their knowledge of the most 
difficult parts of anatomy so very accurate, that the Directors of 
the Highland and i\.gricultural Society who were present, agreed, 
on the part of the Society, in the peculiar circumstances of the 
case, to award two additional medals. The three following gen- 
tlemen, among whom the contest had lain, were then declared equal 
in merit, and obtained medals accordingly : viz. Mr. Charles 
Fraser, Mr. Thomas Swarbrick, and Mr. John Couch Quick. 
Account of the late Enzootic Enteritis among 
Horses in Paris. 
[A short sketch of this complaint may be interesting, as 
connected or contrasted with the present prevailing epidemic 
in various parts of Great Britain.] 
During the months of June and July there appeared, in Paris 
and its environs, a disease among horses much resembling that 
which broke out in 1825. At the commencement the horses were 
unusually dull, and soon became altogether disspirited. They 
back as far as the halter would permit while in the stable, and hung 
could scarcely be induced to touch either solid or liquid food. 
The conjunctiva was deeply injected; the tumefied pupils 
covered part of the globe of the eye, and by pressure with the 
fingers permitted a considerable quantity of limpid serosity to 
escape. 
