186 COM PTE RENDU OF THE SCHOOL AT LYONS, 
He was then kept under the influence of the aperient medicine for 
a week, hut with no avail. 
The dog was frequently attacked with a fit of vomiting, and espe- 
cially soon after a meal. Scarcely a day passed without sickness, 
and he grew dull and thin. Four or five months elapsed, and then 
he began to rally, and assumed his former habits and appearance, 
with the exception of occasional fits of sickness, almost every fort- 
night or three weeks. 
Feb. 3 d, 1827. — -One of its usual fits of vomiting occurred, and 
the lost shilling made its appearance. It was perfectly blackened, 
but not in the least eroded or altered in form. 
From that time the sickness entirely ceased; and I occasionally 
saw him for two or three years afterwards, in the best health and 
condition. 
COMPTE RENDU OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE 
ROYAL VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS, DURING 
THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1837-8. 
We have received into the hospital, from the 1st of August, 
1837, to the same day in the year 1838, 1216 animals; besides 
which there have been brought more than 6000 for consultation, 
or to be operated upon or attended to, on account of certain wounds 
or accidents. In our detail of some of these cases we will be 
guided in our selection either by their rarity or complication, or 
because they illustrate the progress of certain divisions of our sci- 
ence, or present certain facts analogous to those which are observed 
in the practice of human medicine. We can refer to these ana- 
logies without fear, for all the branches of the healing art approxi- 
mate to each other. In our opinion, the sciences of human and 
veterinary medicine are only parts of one great whole, separated 
only as the physiology of man differs from that of the brute. The 
same general laws govern, to a greater or less degree, every species 
of organization, from the most simple to the most complicated. All 
are comprehended under one general term, the biology or science 
of life. 
That which is true of life is equally applicable to disease. If 
there are constant laws to govern the ordinary state of the different 
functions, it is the same with the extraordinary phenomena which 
constitute the science of pathology. The various diseases, irre- 
gular as they seem to be, are all governed by certain laws — laws 
as definite as those which belong to physiology and to health. 
Veterinary science may be considered as introductory to human 
medicine. We cultivate the same field, — life. Ours are sister- 
