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Foreign Department. 
DEATH OF M. BARTHELEMY, Senior. 
In the death of this much respected ci-devant professor at 
the Alfort school, which took place on the 19th of September 
1851, in the 76th year of his age, the veterinary profession in 
France have experienced a loss of no mean character. M. Bar- 
thelemy commenced his professional career in the army at the 
time of the empire, whence he was translated to the chair of 
professor. He was a member of the National Academy of 
Medicine, of the National Central Society of Agriculture, and 
of that of Medicine, and an Officer of the Legion of Honour, &c. 
Though he reckoned upwards of forty years in the laborious 
exercise of his profession, yet were his hours so unremittingly 
taken up as to allow him little time for leaving behind him 
many bequests to science of a literary nature. Still, has he 
left in our minds cherished recollections of his highly valuable 
experiments on contagious diseases, more particularly as regards 
glanders and malignant fever ( charbon) ; besides those of the 
very honourable stations he is known to have held in the various 
learned societies of which he was a member .—Recueil de Mtd. 
Vet., Sep. 1851. 
INQUIRIES INTO A DISEASE OF THE HORSE AS 
YET BUT LITTLE KNOWN. 
By 0. Delafond, 
Professor of Pathology at the National Veterinary School at Alfort. 
[Continued from page 104.] 
I BELIEVE I have already shewn in two other papers*, by a 
mass of indisputable facts, that artificial provender, given in too 
great abundance for any length of time, will in cattle and sheep 
induce sanguineous plethora, speedily followed by hemorrhagic 
congestions in the intestines, the spleen, the kidneys, the lungs, 
the spinal canal, the skin, the cellular tissue, &c. This result is 
constant, undeniable, self-evident. The horse, naturally sanguine 
and athletic in his temperament, expending much blood by 
exertion, bears up for a longer time than ruminants against the 
effects of succulent diet and that polyaemic condition which 
is the consequence of it. Still, the bowels, wearied by the 
constant presence of a large mass of alimentary matters, become 
heated and irritated ; and this irritation, united with sanguineous 
* In articles on disease of the blood in neat cattle and sheep, vol. viii, 3d series 
of the Recueil. 
