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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCHOOL AT ALFOIIT. 
animals had been unharnessed, and had eaten an enormous 
quantity of oats and hay. This mode of treatment was that 
which M. Vatel adopted during the last years that he directed 
the hospital of this school: the following results gathered from 
the clinical reports of that Professor, by M. Renault, then prin¬ 
cipal assistant, will not be heard without interest:— 
In 1827, thirty-nine horses sent to the school with violent colic 
were bled, thirty-one were dismissed cured, three died; the 
other five were so near death, that no treatment was applied. 
On opening the animals, all the characters of more or less com¬ 
plete intestinal haemorrhage were found. 
In 1828, the results were still more happy; since out of thirty- 
three afflicted with colic, twenty-nine were saved by this treat¬ 
ment. Experience seems, then, to speak in its favour. 
M. Renault regrets that the limits of a simple report have only 
permitted him to give a very summary and incomplete detail 
of this so common and serious affection, and one, the true nature 
of which is at the present moment so little known. He intends 
to make it the object of a work that he will shortly publish. 
IV. We could not be strangers in this school to the experi¬ 
ments tried by veterinarians, as to the efflcacy of chlorine against 
glanders. Last year, M. Moiroud made several experiments 
which did not correspond with the hopes that some publications 
had excited. This year, M. Renault has made many new 
trials of this medicine. He has used the chlorine on twelve 
horses in different stages of glanders. To some he administered 
it in fumigations, the concentration, the length, and frequency of 
which he varied ; to others he administered it in different doses, 
in a state of combination either with sodium or lime ; with others 
the chlorides of lime and sodium were injected with care into the 
nostrils at variable degrees of concentration. Some took the 
chlorine under all these forms at once ; one only, which, for three 
weeks, was subjected to treatment by injections of chlorine in 
various combinations, appeared to be cured, and was returned to 
his owner: a month afterward he was again brought to the 
school, more decidedly glandered than ever. 
Nevertheless, all the horses which presented symptoms of 
glanders were not unsuccessfully treated in our infirmary. Se¬ 
veral among them, whom a chronic flux from one nostril, and an 
enlargement of the submaxillary glands on the same side, had 
caused to be regarded with great suspicion, were cured and re¬ 
turned to their owners. The treatment which appeared the most 
beneficial in these circumstances, and which had previously suc¬ 
ceeded in the hands of M. Moiroud, consisted of bleedings of 
two, three, or four pounds at the most; repeated several times, 
