PROCEEDINGS OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS. 85 
the last year to the end of July in the present year, is 950, viz* 
430 horses, 36 asses and mules, 1 cow, 464 dogs and cats, 
5 goats, and some other animals less common, as an ape, a coote, 
a wolf, a squirrel, &c. Less than a sixteenth of the monodactyles 
died under treatment. The mortality among the dogs was 
greater. 
The animals that have been brought to the infirmary for con¬ 
sultation, or operation, as the case might require, and also those 
that were treated by the students at the residence of the owners, 
amounted to 1550, making a sum total of 2500. 
A few of the observations worthy of record may be classed 
under the following heads. 
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. —Although the 
number of animals that have come under treatment appears to be 
considerable, no epizootic diseases have shewn themselves during 
the last year. The temperature was mild during the winter and 
the spring; and these seasons succeeded to each other wdthout 
any considerable atmospheric changes. The cold rains which 
have been the frequent causes of these maladies, have, to a very 
inconsiderable extent, exerted their fatal influence. We have 
seen, however, that the variations of temperature which have ne¬ 
cessarily attended the change from one season to another, have 
produced several acute, although simple laryngeal and pharyngeal 
affections, which easily admitted of cure; and some instances of 
bronchitis, pneumonia, and pleurisy, which have proved fatal, 
when the resources of our art were not early sought. Having 
been taken in time, these maladies also have generally terminated 
favourably. The cases of pleurisy have furnished us with an op¬ 
portunity of observing the too active effects of a blister on the 
chest, even although bleeding, carried to a considerable extent, 
had been employed to prevent the intense reaction which it often 
excites.' We have been more fortunate in the use of cataplasms 
of linseed-meal, on which mustard is sprinkled, and scarifications 
being afterwards applied to the cellular engorgement which usually 
follows. We have sometimes pushed on this cutaneous revulsive 
infiammation even to vesication. 
Glanders and Farcy.— The knowledge that we think we 
have acquired of the occasional causes of glanders and farcy 
enables us to explain why these diseases have been so rare during 
the winter and spring; and also why the treatment of the last of 
these afi’ections has generally been successful. In fact, the in¬ 
fluence of a mild temperature and dry air seems to be almost as 
efficacious as any of the remedies to which we are accustomed 
to have recourse. 
With regard to farcy, M. Legros, a veterinary surgeon at Autun, 
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