FRENCH MILITARY VETERINARY MEDICINE. 691 
experienced in the service. Lastly, M. Magendie was appointed 
president of this honourable and learned re-union. 
Between the years 1843 and 1847, the questions submitted 
severally to the army veterinary surgeons by the Secretary at 
War have been the following:— 
1. A topographical and medical description of the garrison and 
cantonments your regiment occupies. 
2. A description of the stables, their aspect, their interior ar¬ 
rangement, the nature of the soil, and their capacity. 
3. Nature and nutritive qualities of the forage, &c. Nomencla¬ 
ture of the plants composing the common meadow hay you receive. 
4. Allowance of green-meat. Number and ages of horses 
placed upon it. 
5. Nature of the waters given to your horses, and their chemical 
composition. 
6. Statistics of the diseases observed from the 1st January to 
the 31st December among the horses of your regiment. 
7. Statement of your losses during the year, arranged according 
to age, &c.; also a numerical statement of horses recruited in the 
course of the year. 
8. Mode of treatment adopted in each kind of disease; opinion 
on the contagion or non-contagion of glanders, together with any 
observed facts. 
9. Exposition of general or special causes believed to have 
contributed to the production of disease. 
10. Hygienic measures put in force to preserve your horses in 
health : the best means, in your opinion, to adopt. 
11. Sanitary state of the horses of your corps. 
12. Breed of horses in your corps. 
13. Mode of shoeing you practise. Any ameliorations you 
suggest. 
Isolated or limited to a single year, such information might 
have turned out useless to the state, and valueless to science; but, 
collated through a series of years one with another, the annual 
reports of the veterinary surgeons of the army already supply data 
promising at no distant period to furnish resolutions to problems 
hitherto warmly contested. 
One simple statement will shew how numerous and varied the 
documents must be which yearly reach the committee of hygiene? 
since it really amounts to nothing less than a hygienic history, 
pathological and statistical, of the 60,000 horses in the different 
