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CASES OF PALSY IN THE HORSE. 
history, terminated the sitting by reading the result of the pre¬ 
vious “public examination of the students on three successive 
days. Forty pupils contended for their diploma, thirty-five of 
whom obtained it, and on six of them valuable prizes were 
bestowed, as a reward of superior merit. 
The duration of veterinary education in the French school is 
four years. The pupils of every year are examined at the close 
of each session, and prizes were now bestowed on nine of the 
first year, seven of the second year, and six of the thiid yeai. 
To every prize was added a portrait of the venerable Bourgelat, 
the founder of the first French veterinary school. 
Journal Politique et Literaire de Haut Garonne. 
ISxtrarts- 
Additional Cases of Palsy in the Horse. 
By M. Bouley, Jan., 1. V., Paris. 
With Observations by M. Renault, Professor at the School of Alfort. 
When I attempted to trace, in theRecueil de Medecine Vete- 
rinaire, in the years 1829 and 1830, a sketch of the diseases of 
the spinal cord in the horse, I regretted that I was unable to 
offer a complete monograph of these affections, and I pledged 
myself to communicate any interesting facts that I might after¬ 
wards be able to collect on this subject. I now redeem that 
pledge. 
Eleven cases, contained in the memoir referred to, having 
sufficiently illustrated the principal alterations that ordinarily 
present themselves in the spinal marrow and its envelopes in 
horses that die paralytic, I shall abstain from producing here 
many similar facts that I have collected since that time, and 
which would cast little light on the history of these diseases, and 
shall confine myself to the relation of two cases which I deem 
particularly worthy of preservation. 
CASE I. 
A bay mare, eight or nine years old, strong and well made, 
after having been well fed, was harnessed to a light cart, at four 
o’clock in the morning on the 28d of December, 1830, in order 
to draw some goods from Bagnolet to Paris. The servant ob¬ 
served that the animal proceeded more slowly than usual on her 
journey, and when she arrived at her destination, Faubourg St. 
Antoine, he remarked that she was agitated, and that her hinder 
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