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EXTRACT FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT, DURING THE 
SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1833-34. 
JBy M. Renault, Professor at that School. 
Clinical and Surgical Chair. 
During the present session, 570 animals have been ad¬ 
mitted into the infirmary of this school, viz. 382 horses, 5 asses, 
1 goat, and 182 dogs. 
Of the 382 horses, 209 were discharged cured, or in the way 
of being so; 19 died, and 45 were abandoned to the school as 
incurable, and destroyed. 
Of the five asses, one died : he had been affected with tetanus. 
Of the 182 dogs, 129 were discharged cured, and 46 died, or 
were destroyed after having been given up by their proprietors. 
It should be recollected, that the animals sent to us have gene¬ 
rally laboured under very serious diseases, and that often they 
had been already treated without success, or had been aban¬ 
doned, and then, as the last chance, had been brought to our 
infirmary. 
The number of animals submitted to treatment in our hospi¬ 
tals, was 95 more than in the last year. This evidently proves the 
increasing confidence which the owmers of horses and other ani¬ 
mals in our neighbourhood place in us, and also the increasing 
advantage of the school in the augmentation of the means of 
practical instruction which are placed at its disposal. 
Unfortunately, the absence, during 18 months, of an assistant, 
that was indispensable to him, did not permit M. Renault to 
give all the clinical instruction which he wished to have done. 
Perhaps that professor would have felt himself incompetent to 
the number and extent of the duties which from this cause de¬ 
volved upon him, had not M. Delafond kindly devoted to 
attendance on the infirmary a portion of the few leisure moments 
that were left to him. M. Renault here offers to him a public 
acknowledgment of obligation and gratitude. 
1545 horses, 10 cows, 23 pigs, 31 sheep, and 12 dogs were 
also brought to the hospital for advice : it was given with regard 
to all, and on several of them surgical operations, more or less 
serious, were performed. 
The pupils of the fourth year have attended on these animals 
when the proprietors in the neighbourhood wished that they 
should be visited at their habitations. 
The total number of animals that have been either re¬ 
ceived into the infirmary, or with regard to which advice has 
