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Extract from the Report of the Proceedings of 
the School at Alfort, during the Session of the 
Year 1831. 
Clinical Chair. 
I. During the session which has ended, there were admitted 
and subjected to medical treatment 498 animals ; namely, 253 
horses, 71 mares, 3 asses, 161 dogs, 7 goats, 1 pig, 1 cat, and 
1 parrot. 
Of the 324 horses and mares, 265 were discharged cured or in 
a convalescent state; 37 died; and 23 having been condemned 
as glandered, were destroyed. Two of the three asses were re¬ 
turned to their proprietors perfectly w r ell; the third is recovering. 
Of the 161 dogs, 137 were discharged cured; 28 died ; and 
6 having been abandoned, were destroyed. 
The 7 goats, the cat, and the parrot, were cured ; and the pig 
died. 
But a little more than a ninth part of the horses that were 
treated in the infirmary, died. But if we consider that the greater 
part of the animals which are sent to us are afflicted with very 
serious diseases ; that many have been already treated without 
success, or condemned by others, and are only sent to our school 
as a last hope, we cannot but be pleased with the results of the 
method of cure pursued in our establishment. 
Besides these, 864animals have been brought to the school for 
advice; on each of them the professor or the chief assistant gave 
his opinion, either verbally or in writing; and on many of them 
important surgical operations were performed. The inoculation 
of a flock of sheep belonging to the school gave the pupils an 
opportunity of studying the development, progress, and termina¬ 
tion of the scab. 
Lastly, the pupils in their fourth year of study have been sent 
from the school to attend the horses, cows and sheep, whenever 
their services have been required by the proprietors in the neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
Charged with the direction of the hospital, M. Renault has 
endeavoured to render his system of practical instruction profit¬ 
able to the pupils. Seconded by M. Delafond, he is principally 
studious to direct their attention to those diseases which are most 
common, and which consequently they will most frequently meet 
with in the course of their practice. Thus, affections of the lungs, 
or of the intestinal canal, diseases or wounds of the foot, or the 
skin, &c., have been the frequent subjects of clinical lectures, 
whether at the arrival or during the continuance of the animals 
