770 OBITUARY — M. IIURTREL D’ARBOVAL.. 
private fortune placing him superior to any desire of accumulating 
additional wealth, he abandoned himself altogether to the pursuit 
of veterinary science, and to that love of the horse which had been 
his earliest delight. During more than twenty years he pursued 
this course. He gave half of the day to his love of equitation, and to 
the care — the gratuitous care — of the sick animals that were brought 
to him, and the other portion of the day was devoted to a new ob- 
ject, and a truly important one, the committal to writing of his daily 
increasing experience. It is, indeed, gratifying to record the career 
of a man like him. 
From 1803 to 1805, the station of a strong cavalry force in the 
arrondissement of Montreuil gave him the opportunity of observing, 
on a most extensive scale, the ravages of farcy and glanders among 
the regimental horses. 
His reputation was now established, not only in Montreuil, but 
in every part of France. He was elected an Associate of almost 
every agricultural and scientific society ; and he contributed one or 
more valuable papers to each society with which he became con- 
nected. At the same time, unknown almost to his most intimate 
friends, he was laying the foundation of that noble work, the Dic- 
tionary of Veterinary Medicine, which will immortalize him. 
In 1815 a murderous typhoid epizootic appeared in the depart- 
ment du Pas-de- Calais. He was named especial commissioner 
to inquire into its cause and its cure. With all his characteristic 
zeal he devoted himself to the task which was assigned to him ; 
and it was owing to the peculiar and effective measures which he 
adopted that the plague was staid. He published a summary 
course of instruction on this subject. It was diffused through the 
different departments of France, and it saved the lives of thousands 
of cattle. This gave him another claim on the respect and gra^ 
titude of his country. 
In 1819 he published, at the request of the minister of the in- 
terior, some most valuable instructions on the treatment of those 
peculiar diseases of cattle which in France, as in England, carry 
off thousands when a sultry summer is succeeded by a cold and 
rainy autumn. This work soon reached the fourth edition. 
While Hurtrel d’Arboval was thus distinguishing himself as a 
writer, he was becoming more and more a practical man. He had 
a considerable farm of his own. It was managed under his im- 
mediate superintendence, and his experiments on various important 
points were on the largest scale. In 1822 he published his treatise 
on La Clavelee , a singularly destructive pustular disease, little 
known in England, but which occasionally . decimated the conti- 
nental flocks. “ This work,” in the language of M. H. Bouley, 
to whom we are indebted for much of the account which we are 
