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REPORT OF THE ROYAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY OF 
AGRICULTURE OF FRANCE, 
AT THE CONCOURS OF 1840, SO FAR AS REGARDS THE MEMOIRS, &C. 
CONNECTED WITH VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
Commissioners MM. DE Gasparin, Huzard, Yvart ; and 
Girard, Reporter. 
[This Society held its annual meeting in the early part of the 
last spring. It was, until lately, the noblest association that the 
world contained, as being directly and deeply connected, or rather 
identified, with the agricultural and most important interests of the 
country. 
A society of the same character, but somewhat differently con¬ 
stituted, has lately sprung up in our country. It comprises the 
great and the good of every party. It is spreading its ramifications 
through every portion of the kingdom; and it promises to be the 
noblest institution with which our country was ever blest. The im¬ 
provement of the veterinary art has, from its commencement, been 
one of its important objects, on account of its essential connexion 
with agricultural prosperity; and although at present, from circum¬ 
stances which we can only regard with surprise and regret, the 
southern veterinary school is refusing to prepare itself for that 
important and ennobling connexion which might be so readily 
effected—although it seems determined that the veterinary pupil 
shall not, cannot acquire that knowledge of the diseases of cattle 
and sheep, and other domesticated animals, which his honourable 
acceptation and the well-being of the agriculturist demand, yet 
the time is not far distant when common sense and common in¬ 
terest will prevail; and in these public meetings, as well as in his 
private connexions, the veterinary surgeon will assume his true 
character, and contribute his share to the general weal.] Y. 
M. Girard reports of this “ Concours,” that the communications 
from veterinary surgeons have been more numerous than in any 
former year, both from the private practitioners, and their brethren 
in the cavalry service; and that the prizes awarded for commu¬ 
nications of superior merit were far more numerous than at any 
preceding meeting. The subjects have been of an important cha¬ 
racter, and they have had a more direct reference to points of a prac¬ 
tical nature. 
The Reporter now gives a slight sketch, which we shall yet 
more abridge, of the communications of the different essayists. 
M. Mangin sent an account of ten cases of pulmonary apoplexy, 
congestive pneumonia, and his opinion of the causes and treatment 
of this fatal disease. 
