VETERINARY AFFAIRS. 
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1 now conclude this subject, having fulfilled my promised 
intentions regarding the several maladies of the horse’s heart, 
in the relation of which I have been as explicit as the limits of a 
periodical would admit. 
Frtrrimiry affairs. 
E. xtract from the Report of the Veterinary School of Alfort 
daring the Year 1833. 
• CLINICAL CHAIR. 
The influence of the political insubordination of this School 
on the interests of the hospital attached to it was much to be 
dreaded. There was reason to fear that, deprived during four 
months of the succour they were accustomed to derive from this 
school, the proprietors of horses and cattle would have be¬ 
gun to take their sick animals elsewhere; and, in fact, during 
the first two months after the reorganization of the school, we 
had very few patients in our infirmary : but, by degrees, the 
news of the re-opening of the school spread abroad, the stables 
became filled, and the patients were even more numerous than 
they had previously been. 
During the scholastic year that has just expired, and which, 
not having commenced until the 1st of October, actually in¬ 
cluded only eleven months, 495 animals were admitted into the 
hospital; viz., 242 horses, 91 mares, 2 cows, 3 sheep, 2 goats, 
and 155 dogs. 
Of the 333 horses and mares, 287 were dismissed cured, or 
with a fair prospect of cure; and 25 died, after having been sub¬ 
mitted to treatment for a greater or less length of time: 21, having 
been pronounced incurable, were given up to the School, and de¬ 
stroyed. ' 
Of the two cows, one attacked with inflammatory fever was 
cured; the other was consumptive, and was destroyed. 
Two of the three sheep were saved, and the other died of turn- 
sick. 7 J* 
The two goats were returned perfectly cured. 
Of the 155 dogs, 124 were cured; and 31 died or were de¬ 
stroyed, after having been given up to the School by their owners. 
It appears, then, that only about a thirteenth part of the horses 
treated in our infirmary have died ; a result which cannot fail of 
being flattering to the School, when it is recollected that the 
greater part of the animals which are sent here labour under 
