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full and due attention. If the avocations of the present Professors 
will not admit of this, others must be added. And is there any 
thing unreasonable in this 1 Ours has been the only school in 
which the instruction of the pupil has been thus confined : ours is 
the only school that has but one professor, and an assistant-profes- 
sor. Look at the medical schools around us — look at the veteri- 
nary schools in every country in Europe. Four, five, six talented 
men are, in all of them, employed in preparing the student for the 
efficient exercise of his profession. Where is the reason that, in 
Great Britain alone, unrivalled for its horses, its cattle, and its 
sheep, the veterinary student should be more inefficiently taught 
than in any other country in the world ? Common sense, common 
justice, and common interest will now unite many honourable minds 
in commencing that career of improvement which will gradually, 
cautiously, and in good faith be pursued until the reputation and 
honour of the practitioner, and the peculiar interests of the farmer, 
are secured. 
COMPTE RENDU OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE 
ROYAL VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT, 
DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1837-8. 
Hospitals. 
Professor M. Renault. 
Assistant Professor M. BOULEY. 
DURING the session which has now terminated, 638 animals of 
different species have been received into the hospital; namely, 
418 horses, 3 cows, 1 ass, 1 mule, and 213 dogs. 
Of the 418 horses, 320 were dismissed cured, or very materi- 
ally benefitted, 39 are at present in the infirmaries, 33 died after 
treatment of a longer or shorter duration, and 26 were destroyed, 
either because they were manifestly incurable, or the treatment, 
the result of which was more or less uncertain, would neces- 
sarily occupy a space of time that would render the expense far 
greater than their worth. Of those that were condemned as being 
in an incurable state, the greater part were either farcied or 
glandered. 
01 the 215 dogs, 144 were discharged perfectly cured, or in a 
very favourable way; 32 remain under treatment, and 39 have 
died, the greater part of them labouring under distemper. 
