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after an interval of two or three days. To this was added fumi¬ 
gation, at first emollient, afterwards aromatic, and of a more or 
less stimulating nature, according to the state of the nasal mem¬ 
brane and the character of the discharge. On some animals, in¬ 
jections rendered astringent by the acetate of lead, appeared to 
have good effect. All this time, the enlarged glands were rubbed 
with mercurial preparations, or, what seemed better, with the 
iodate of potassium, and they were kept warm. The animals 
were submitted to a good regimen, and the applications were 
made with great care. These general observations on the most 
frequent diseases of domesticated animals, and that which M. 
Renault has developed in his clinical lectures, will, we think, 
suffice to prove, that now 7 , as hitherto, the study of the practice of 
veterinary medicine is cultivated in our school, and in a manner 
that acquires us new claims to the confidence of the numerous 
proprietors who have had recourse to us in the treatment of their 
animals. 
A crowd of other particulars, which the limits of our report 
forces us to pass over in silence, and which have been collected 
in our hospitals, have been or soon will be published, in the Re- 
cueil de Medecine Veterinaire, and in which the observations of 
the professors of this school are deposited. 
The services rendered by our establishment have not been 
limited to its immediate neighbourhood. 
A disease bearing the character of an enzootic shewed itself 
tow r ards the middle of last year among the horses of one of the 
largest proprietors of the department of the Somme. M. Renault 
was immediately sent for to examine and to treat it. At the 
time of his arrival, the disease had prevailed for nearly three 
months ; and out of one hundred and thirty horses which were in 
the stable at the time of its development, forty-nine were dead, and 
fifteen diseased. They knew not what to think of this affection, 
in which no organ seemed to suffer or be in the least altered, 
either before or after death. Many of the patients ate heartily 
up to the last moment. The various methods of treatment adopted 
all failed. There was nothing to direct their researches, and 
their efforts to prevent it were not more happy. Among the per¬ 
sons who were consulted, some attributed it to the unhealthiness of 
the stables; others, to the bad quality of the water; some believed 
it to be contagious; the people of the house believed all sorts of 
things: the owner knew not what to think in the midst of all 
these contrarieties, and was in absolute despair. 
M. Renault set to work immediately to study the character and 
nature of this fatal malady. Of the fifteen horses which were 
diseased at the time of his arrival, eight, of whom there was no 
