DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1837-8. 59 
The mule is still in the infirmary ; but the ass is dead. Two of 
the cows were successfully treated, but the third died. 
Independently of these animals that were received into the 
hospital, 2137 were brought to us for advice, namely, 1996 horses, 
99 dogs, 15 asses, 5 cows, 5 mules, 2 sheep, and 4 goats. The 
greater part laboured under some external or internal disease, 
and the others came to be examined previous to purchase, or because 
some dispute had arisen between the buyer and the seller. With 
regard to each of these animals, the professor, or the assistant 
professor gave his advice orally or in writing, and surgical opera- 
tions were performed on a great many of them. Therefore in the 
hospital or in the yard attention was given to 2765 animals in the 
course of the year. 
In addition to this, the students of the fourth year attended 
206 patients in the environs of Paris. 
Every new experiment tried this year regarding the cure of 
CHRONIC GLANDERS has confirmed M. Renault in the opinion 
which he had already avowed, as to the incurability of that dis- 
ease, and the necessity of directing the chief or only attention to 
preventive measures when attending the stables that have been 
thinned by this pest, rather than attempting any. curative means 
which the careful and anxious experiments of so many years have 
failed to discover. 
As to FARCY, a disease which M. Renault has always con- 
sidered as identical with glanders, or differing from it only as 
seated in the superficial part of the animal, the results of this 
year’s experience have proved that it is generally curable when 
it has only appeared under the form of buttons, or cords, or cir- 
cumscribed tumours, and the lymphatic ganglionic system has not 
been affected. In these cases the extirpation or cauterization of 
the parts, whether employed singly or in conjunction with each 
other, have been the most efficacious measures that we could 
adopt; but in connexion with these local measures, we have 
always had recourse to the aid of medicine and proper diet. 
We will not omit on this year, as we have not on preceding 
ones, the wish to see undertaken on a grand scale a series of ex- 
periments on the contagion of chronic glanders. The government, 
which has at length felt the necessity of obtaining a conclusive 
answer to this question, so important to the interests of agricul- 
ture and the army, has named, in order to direct and to follow 
out these experiments, a commission, over which a lieutenant- 
general presides, and which reckons among its distinguished 
members a fellow of the Institute, and also M. Yvart. 
M. Renault, who occupies the situation of the latter distin- 
guished individual at this school, is enabled to state that, 
