SCHOOL AT ABOU-ZABEL. 
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distinctions of chronic and acute, the only difference which I 
have observed is, that some cows, old ones in particular, though 
they discharge bloody urine, are somewhat off their feed and 
constipated, yet continue to ruminate and secrete milk, though 
less than ordinary, a proof that, though operated on by the same 
causes, it is in a different degree, or with less effect. 
I have no space for a bare outline of treatment; but if I had, 
I should not have time to do it now; and therefore, if desirable 
at all, it must be at some future time. 
Si' 1.111. .^.™ mr i . i i ... 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1 , 1834 . 
Nc quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
VETERINARY SCHOOLS—ABOU-ZABEL. 
The establishment of the first veterinary school in Africa 
deserves to be recorded in the leading article of our Journal, 
which is a translation of the Report of M. Girard, Director of the 
Veterinary School at Alfort, to the Royal Academy of Medicine 
at Paris. We give it at length, and in a succeeding number we 
will present our readers with a most gratifying account of the 
progress of this Egyptian college. 
“ Gentlemen,—M. Hamont, director of a veterinary school 
established at Abou-Zabel, in Egypt, has sent to the Academy, 
through the medium of Dr. Leuret, an account of the tiansac- 
tions of that school during the scholastic year of the hegira, 
1246-1247 (1831-1832). You have appointed a commission, 
consisting of Messrs. Bouley, Andral, jun., and Giraid, to leport 
on the nature and merit of that Report, and also of the claims of 
that veterinarian to your favourable consideration. Charged by 
your commission to fulfil this honourable duty, I shall trace 
from the beginning the history of the new school of Abou-Zabel; 
I shall enumerate the services rendered by M. Hamont; and I 
shall glance at those which we have yet to expect from his zeal 
and perseverance. 
M. Hamont, a distinguished pupil of the school of Alfort, and 
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