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REPORT OF THE ROYAL 
The number of animals brought to the school for advice, and 
taken away immediately after the Professor had been consulted, 
or after they had been operated on, was far higher than the num¬ 
ber of patients treated in the infirmary, and may, without exagge¬ 
ration, be reckoned at two thousand. Nearly two hundred ani¬ 
mals in the environs have been visited by the pupils sent from 
the school at the request of the proprietors. 
1. The variable temperature and frequent rains that occurred 
towards the close of the last year, and the beginning of the pre¬ 
sent one, caused a great number of inflammations of the mucous 
membrane of the respiratory passages, both in the horse and in 
the dog. 
In the latter, the disease which attacks young animals con¬ 
sists of a simultaneous inflammation of the mucous membrane 
of the alimentary and pulmonary tubes, and particularly the last. 
It resisted all the ordinary means of treatment, and destroyed 
the greater part of the animals which were affected by it. 
In the monodactyles, in nearly fifty of the patients affected 
with this inflammation of the mucous membrane of the respira¬ 
tory passages, the disease was seated, from the commencement, 
in the mucous membrane most affected ; but laryngitis was fre¬ 
quently complicated with coryza, rhinitis, or tracheitis, or bron¬ 
chitis. Under this last form, an accidental symptom is fre¬ 
quently observable, namely, a very loud respiration—a sort of 
snoring, which becomes more intense when the patient is eating. 
In all the animals attacked by this disease, the throat was sore: 
a few had considerable tumefaction of the throat; some expressed 
a great deal of pain when the trachea was compressed, and 
all of them coughed more or less, while there was a slight 
mucous discharge from the nostrils. The mucous membrane of 
the stomach had very little participation with this morbid affec¬ 
tion, and which was proved by the unimpaired state of the ap¬ 
petite. 
These affections were always successfully treated by the ordi¬ 
nary means. Embrocations of hot anodyne oils, applied to the 
throat and the trachea, appeared to give immediate ease. Care 
was taken to keep these parts covered with sheep-skins with the 
wool on. 
