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COMPTE RENDU OF THE LABOURS OF THE PRO- 
FESSOR OF PATHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOL OF 
LYONS, IN THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1839-40. 
By M. Rainard. 
There have been entered in our hospitals, from the 20th of 
August 1839 to the 10th of August 1840, seven hundred and 
nine animals labouring under different diseases, the greater num- 
ber of them being horses and dogs, with a comparatively smaller 
proportion of cattle and sheep. 
The mortality has been a little more than one in six, and that 
including the horses that have died of glanders, and the dogs that 
have been rabid. A great number of patients of both descrip- 
tions are brought to us every year, and who die in our infirmary 
without the possibility of cure. 
Glanders has been very prevalent during the last year, owing 
to the strange variations of temperature ; and other maladies, 
ordinarily exciting little alarm, have taken on a more than usual 
formidable appearance. Diseases of the mucous membranes of 
the respiratory passages, such as strangles, coryza, angina, bron- 
chitis, &c. especially during sudden variations of the weather, 
have rarely presented themselves in their simple form, but have 
been attended by an unusual violence and complication, and ob- 
stinacy of symptoms seldom experienced. In many cases coryza, 
simple in appearance, has been followed by enlargement and in- 
duration of the subrnaxillary glands, that have ultimately as- 
sumed the character of glanders. 
From the sudden changes of temperature which have charac- 
terized the last year many horses have been attacked by serious 
diseases of the throat, and which indeed in some cases have been 
fatal. The Eustachian tube has become the seat of abscess, 
which has only been got rid of by puncture beneath the parotid, 
effected either by the bistoury or the actual cautery. 
These maladies, when they appear without complication and in 
animals of good constitution, generally confine themselves to the 
production of a considerable degree of weakness and emaciation, 
from the difficulty there is in swallowing the food. The period 
of convalescence is generally long, but it is hastened and secured 
by the employment of mild tonic and nutritive food : when 
these inflammations of the mucous membrane of the upper pas- 
sages are complicated with that of the bronchi and the pleura, 
the animals, notwithstanding the adoption of the most judicious 
treatment, are generally lost. 
