3d 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
very serious disease; and that many of them, having been al¬ 
ready treated without success, or condemned, are only brought 
to our hospital as a forlorn hope. 
The Professor who is charged with the management of the hos¬ 
pital is happy that he can congratulate the pupils who have this 
vear attended on the clinical course on the remarkable zeal which 
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they have exhibited, and the care, extending to the minutest 
points, which they have bestowed on the animals committed to 
their superintendence. It is an honourable testimonial which 
they will leave behind them at the School, and a noble example 
for their successors. 
922 animals, of which 811 were horses and mares, 4 cows, 
101 dogs, 2 goats, 1 pig, and 1 cat, were brought to the School 
for advice. The Professor, or Assistant Professor, gave his advice 
verbally, or in writing, with regard to each ; and on many of 
them he performed surgical operations, more or less important. 
Finally, the pupils of the fourth year were sent out to trea- 
these animals whenever their assistance was required by the 
neighbouring proprietors; whence it resulted that, either in the 
hospitals, or the daily consultations, the School rendered assist¬ 
ance to 1417 animals. 
In the daily clinical lessons, M. Renault has endeavoured to 
render these numerous means of instruction as profitable as they 
could be to the pupils. According to their usual custom, he chiefly 
endeavoured to direct their attention to those diseases which were 
of most frequent occurrence, and which, consequently, they would 
oftenest meet and have to combat with in their practice. 
Whenever the occasion presented itself, he would place, side 
by side in the infirmary, animals affected with different diseases 
the symptoms of which were sometimes confounded. In this 
manner he rendered the symptoms, which were characteristic of 
each of them, evident before the eyes of the pupils. 
This Professor has also continued the system which he had 
adopted, of using, among medicinal agents of equal therapeutic 
value, those which were least expensive. He thus prepared the 
pupils to adopt, in a manner most beneficial to themselves, and 
least burdensome to the proprietors, a course of treatment, often 
objected to where the most severe economy does not preside over 
the administration of the drugs. 
Finally, to render his clinical course most profitable, and to 
assure himself that his observations had been well attended to and 
understood, M. Renault often called upon the pupils of the fourth 
year to repeat the pathological and therapeutical cases which had 
been the object of their attention during the preceding day. This 
mode of instruction was accompanied by the happiest results. 
