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COMPTE RENDU OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
ROYAL VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS, DURING 
THE SCHOLASTIC SESSION OF 1836-7. 
We will range under two divisions the diseases which will 
occupy us in this compte-rendu — the one comprehending the affec- 
tions which appear to us to depend more or less directly on atmo- 
spheric influence and the changes of the seasons, and the other on 
certain morbid states, purely accidental. 
We have to congratulate ourselves that the general health of 
our domesticated animals was not much disturbed in the course of 
that session, although a destructive epidemic, as regarded the hu- 
man patient, ravaged a portion of the country, and our locality 
especially. We can truly say that, at the period when the cholera 
prevailed at Lyons, there were brought to us for consultation, or 
received into our hospitals, fewer animals than during the same 
period in any preceding year. 
Glanders and farcy, which ordinarily appear most frequently in 
cold and wet seasons, have been little known ; except that one of 
the corps of cavalry in our garrison experienced some losses from 
the first of these maladies, attributable to the long route which they 
had been compelled to take, in order to reach Lyons, and the bad 
state of some of the stables which they occupied after their arrival. 
To this should be added, that these losses were confined to old 
and worn-out horses which were about to be discharged. The 
other corps in our garrison experienced very few losses, either from 
glanders or farcy. Our school availed itself of the opportunity to 
institute some new experiments on the power of certain thera- 
peutic agents over these diseases of the horse, and especially the 
first of them : but it is compelled to confess that, to the present 
day, it has not discovered any specific or other mode of treatment, 
from which have resulted durable, and consequently valuable, 
curative effects. There have, indeed, been several horses in our 
stables, in whom, after some months’ residence among us, every 
symptom of glanders has disappeared, and they have regained 
their good condition, and their former capability of work, and have 
returned to the ranks ; but they have soon sickened again, and died. 
Two or three only continue to preserve their recovered health. 
As to farcy, when it has not been complicated with glanders, 
the apparent success of our treatment has not been of such frequent 
occurrence, but it has been more to be depended upon. The ques- 
tion of the contagiousness of this malady being, to the present 
day, a subject of dispute among us, we have instituted some new 
experiments with a view of some satisfactory settlement of the 
